Magdeleine Leonard Quotes

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution. ~ Leonard Read

Value equals benefits received for burdens endured. ~ Leonard L. Berry

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. ~ PJ Harvey

The brain accounts for only 2 percent of the body's volume, yet consumes 20 percent of the body's energy. A pearly gray, gelatinous, three-pound universe, this exceptional organ can map parsecs and plot the whereabouts of distant galaxies measured in quintillions of light-years. The brain accomplishes this magic trick without ever having to leave its ensorcelled ovoid cranial shell. From minuscule-wattage electrical currents crisscrossing and ricocheting within its walls, the brain can reconstruct a detailed diorama of how it imagines the Earth appeared four billion years ago. It can generate poetry so achingly beautiful that readers weep, hatred so intense that otherwise rational people revel in the torture of others, and love so oceanic that entwined lovers lose the boundaries of their physical beings. ~ Leonard Shlain

This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties. ~ Leonard Cohen

Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense of identity and thinking. If they are stories rather than "truth," we can write new stories that better represent the country we aspire to be. Our new stories can be about diverse people working together to overcome challenges and make life better for all, about figuring out how to live sustainably on this one planet we share, and on deep respect for cooperation, fairness, and equity instead of promoting hyper-competitive individualism. ~ Annie Leonard

Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church - with prayer and meditation? ~ Leonard Ravenhill

It's a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too. ~ Leonard Cohen

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz. ~ Hugh Leonard

The world is not everything Ruth. Nor is the want of men's good opinion and esteem the highest need which man has. Teach Leonard this. You would not wish his life to be one summer's day. You dared not make it so, if you had the power. Teach him to bid a noble, Christian welcome to the trials which God sends - and this is one of them. Teach him not to look on a life of struggle, and perhaps of disappointment and incompleteness, as a sad and mournful end, but as the means permitted to the heroes and warriors in the army of Christ, by which to show their faithful following. Tell him of the hard and thorny path which was trodden once by the bleeding feet of One. Think of the Saviour's life and cruel death, and of His divine faithfulness ... We have all been cowards hitherto. God help us to be so no longer! ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud. ~ Lydia Leonard

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos. ~ Leonard Sweet

I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours. ~ Leonard Read

God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ~ Leonard Cohen

It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions. ~ Leonard Read

Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand. ~ James Leonard Gordon

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. ~ Leonard Orr

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. ~ Elmore Leonard

No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship…. Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the university to be used for religious purposes. ~ Leonard W. Levy

It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

I've been working for other people my whole life, and all they do is ignore my ideas. That's if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, they ruin my ideas and then make me ~ Leonard Richardson

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners. ~ Leonard L. Berry

That period had been the peak of his life, though he had not realized it then. It had gone by without time for reflection, ending while he was still thinking things were going to get better. ~ Leonard Gardner

The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman. ~ Leonard Pitts

Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. ~ Leonard Nimoy

That goddamn Louis, you see what he done? Put his cigarette butt in here. I'm gonna punch him right in his smokin' mouth." Max turned back to the form, glades mutual casualty printed across the top. He said, "I know how you feel. But when you hit an ex-con who's done three falls, they say you better kill him. ~ Elmore Leonard

For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy. ~ Leonard Mlodinow

We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second. ~ Joe R. Lansdale

If the Enchanted Forest were in a movie, they'd always be playing Bob Dylan or Van Morrison or maybe even Leonard Cohen in the background. Greta thought about that a lot. Sometimes when she was taking a shower or helping her mom in the restaurant, she'd imagine what kind of scene it would be and what would be playing to set the mood. ~ Emma Straub

There were few things more paralyzing than fear and worry, and she could not understand why other people - even Bonnie - withstood them so readily. The world was what it was, the future would be what it would be, and there was not much you could do to change either. So you did what you knew was right, you accepted the consequences, and you did not look back. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

We sold ourselves for love but now we are free
I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me ~ Leonard Cohen

Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. - F. B. MEYER ~ Leonard Ravenhill

If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it. ~ Leonard Marx