#leading

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. ↗

— James Wolcott

#dark #door #down #drop #election

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#leading #really #rise #risen #should

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#dominant #leading #political #political power #possible

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#august #best #confidence #corn #doing

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#been #enough #essentially #his #i

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability. ↗

— Peter Hain

#countries #ensure #including #leading #lot

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#between #course #misleading #people #same

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #famous #giving #good #good advice

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses. ↗

— Kit Bond

#causes #death #death tax #dissolution #leading