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Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw… — David Sedaris
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been,… — Alice Sebold
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only… — David Attenborough
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery? — Henri Matisse
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers. — Jodi Picoult
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity,… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for… — Humphrey Bogart
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave… — Boris Johnson
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your… — Molly Ringwald
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out. — Malcolm X
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave… — Chang-Rae Lee
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our… — Edward Abbey
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. — Edward Abbey
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music. — Edward Abbey
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave… — Edmund Burke
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or… — Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. — Benjamin Franklin

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