Leon Un Quotes & Sayings

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin

To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion. — Leon Spinks

Beauty is health. Health is beauty. — Andre Leon Talley

On December 13, the tsarina suggests to the tsar: "Anything but this responsible ministry about which everybody has gone crazy. Everything is getting quiet and better, but people want to feel your hand. How long they have been saying to me, for whole years, the same thing: 'Russia loves to feel the whip.' That is their nature!" This orthodox Hessian, with a Windsor upbringing and a Byzantine crown on her head, not only "incarnates" the Russian soul, but also organically despises it. Their nature demands the whip - writes the Russian tsarina to the Russian tsar about the Russian people, just two months and a half before the monarchy tips over into the abyss. In — Leon Trotsky

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt. — Leon Panetta

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice. — Leon Panetta

The worst crime on the part of the revolutionaries would be to give the smallest concessions to the privileges and prejudices of the whites. Whoever gives his little finger to the devil of chauvinism is lost. — Leon Trotsky

Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep. — Leon Brown

I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes. — Leon Wagner

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. — Leon Kass

God make me the man my dog thinks I am. — Janusz Leon Wisniewski

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her. — Donna Leon

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution. — Leon Redbone

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities. — Leon Krier

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do. — Leon Bridges

People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting. — Leon Bridges

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. — Leon Kass

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is. — Leon Brown

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. — Donna Leon

A man can do all things if he but wills them. — Leon Battista Alberti

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. — Leon Foucault

To love is everything: love is God. — Leon Gozlan

I never did think I had brain damage. — Leon Spinks

In flight from intellectual heaviness, [he] arrives at intelligent weightlessness. Every notion is flipped this way and that; the answer to every question is yes and no; the proliferating examples from all the arts ... overwhelm the observations that they are designed to illustrate; the general impression in one of uncontrollable articulateness. [He] does not think his thoughts; he convenes them. There is not a sign of struggle anywhere. — Leon Wieseltier

It is unquestionably true that the need for art is not created by economic conditions. But neither is the need for food created by economics. On the contrary, the need for food and warmth creates economics. — Leon Trotsky

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise. — Leon Jouhaux

Be genuinely concerned for the welfare and growth of others. Feel their strengths. — Leon Nacson

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time. — Leon Panetta

My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved. — Leon G. Cooperman