Visionless Leaders Quotes & Sayings

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton

For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders. — Gene Roddenberry

The most important thing today is to stop US wars. — Yuri Kochiyama

They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs. — Ann Brashares

I understood very clearly that something was required of me, but could not guess what I was expected to do. Some persons, knowing that they were later going to ask a favour, would have made themselves more agreeable when a favour was being asked of them. That was not Widmerpool's way. I almost admired him for making so little effort to conceal his lack of interest in my own affairs, while waiting his time to demand something of myself. — Anthony Powell

We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana? — Gary Shteyngart

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. — Janis Ian

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you. — Irving Stone

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public. — Terrell Owens

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes. — Giambattista Valli

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment. — Edgar Degas

Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt (iv. 7), — Marcus Aurelius

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world. — Bryant McGill

If you can make music with someone you don't need words.
If you wish to be a writer, write. — Epictetus

Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city just before it opens its eyes upon a golden age. — Mark Helprin

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive. — Caroline Paul