Following Quotes
Sad Quotes about Following

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are a puny and fickle folk.
Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone who achieves their
goals consistently and those who spend their lives
and careers merely following? The extra mile.
- Gary Ryan Blair

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
- Christopher Columbus

I do not want to foresee the future.
I am concerned with taking care of the present.
God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you,
following you right on up until you die.
- Paul Simon

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.
- Picabo Street

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better
and better and God's always blessed us for following.
- Stacie Orrico

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes.
If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney,
it's up to you to do it.
- Richard M. Hunt

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs;
nor allowing you to manage your own.
- Willis Lamb

All historical experience demonstrates the following:
Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant
future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
- Hans Kung

I think the hardest part of writing is revising.
And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to
create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
- Chaim Potok

There's always someone following your next step.
- Cindy Margolis

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.
- Jeff Healey

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders,
it isn't acting.
It's following instructions.
Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
- James Dean

Women are reputed never to be disgusted.
The sad fact is that they often are,
but not with men; following the lead of men,
they are most often disgusted with themselves.
- Germaine Greer

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens,
be anyone but yourself.
Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.
- Graham Kennedy

I'm following a real event and real people.
- John Landis

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in
having good people around me and it turned out to be
a pretty good recording in my opinion.
- Ronnie Montrose

Always think that in any area of the arts,
you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative,
original...
and the rest are generally following on,
copying.
- Hugh Hopper

I knew that I had a following here in England,
and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it,
but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
- Edwin Starr

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the
following of the Detroit Red Wings.
- Steve Yzerman

The problem is the following, black music is increasing
encumbered by white elements,
often pleasant but always superfluous,
easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
- Boris Vian

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical,
combine in the three following questions:
1.
What can I know? 2.
What ought I to do? 3.
What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant

We definitely have a hardcore following.
- Phil Anselmo

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say.
I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.
- Trevor Dunn

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration
without technical effort,
and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
- Eugen Herrigel

Some day, following the example of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe.
- George Washington

Butterflies are always following me,
everywhere I go.
- Mariah Carey

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks
immediately following her husband's assassination.
She was especially wonderful to me.
- Pierre Salinger

My following is straight.
I'm so glad.
- Paul Lynde

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to
keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there.
I want the experience of normal college life.
- Julia Stiles

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal,
but that's my general style.
- Ian Jackson

The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
- Laura Hillenbrand

Creativity shouldn't be following radio;
it should be the other way around.
- Herbie Hancock

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and
do something other than paint,
considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
- Frank Auerbach

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s,
and find it not only healthier, but also much more
attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
- Neal Barnard

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs
of military women and ensure they receive proper care
during the first year following childbirth.
- Susan Collins

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of
fields in science and technology,
including the work in molecular biology,
genetic engineering, and so forth.
- K. Eric Drexler

However, the occasional visit of success provides just
the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
- Koichi Tanaka

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
- Martin Mull

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
- Laurell K. Hamilton

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into
an alleyway and lost him.
- Emo Philips

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years,
while he's been on the Court of Appeals.
- Jay Alan Sekulow

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by
hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
- Duncan Sheik

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were.
I'm not following the other person.
It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
- Omar Sharif

That is what leadership is all about:
staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people,
not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore,
as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.
- Richard Leakey

I'm sick of following my dreams.
I'm just going to ask them where they're goin',
and hook up with them later.
- Mitch Hedberg

There's clearly something to be said for success and
following through on your commitments.
- Frank Carlucci

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years.
Following these warnings and these calls,
anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.
- Osama bin Laden

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are,
but he's following them superlatively well.
- Murray Walker

They're simply following what was laid down in front
and they play the same thing.
So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
- Buddy Rich

The National League was born the following year,
as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
- John Thorn

And there is no trade or employment but the young man
following it may become a hero.
- Walt Whitman

There is also a strong following among the urbanites
on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
- Donnie Yen

I have a following.
Whenever I am on tour they come.
It is always sold out.
- Nina Hagen

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following
a leader must be scrutinized.
- Marguerite Young

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way:
security,
land, and water.
- Bashar al-Assad

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested
in people following my work or making work like my work.
- Richard Serra

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the
secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra,
following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
- Artur Rodzinski

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance,
and on the following morning we worked out to St.
Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
- William Bligh

The following year, after I had prepared my draft,
the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The
Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
- Ludwig Quidde

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common
law whenever they agreed,
any more than the converse.
- Frederick Pollock

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far.
I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
- Chris Van Allsburg

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor
the strongest instincts of my nature.
- Julia Ward Howe