Leaves Quotes

2444 Leaves quotes by 1664 unique authors

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves… — Manuel Puig
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions,… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest. — Abraham Lincoln
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. — Ralph Neas
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves… — Caio Fonseca
The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless… — David Hawkins
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much… — Charles Lamb
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want… — Henry Ward Beecher
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of… — Lilian Whiting
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them… — Mike Huckabee
I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time… — Milo
Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims… — Abul A'la Maududi
Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and… — David B. Haight
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. — Chuck Jones
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man,… — Max Stirner
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. — Thomas Starr King
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still… — Brassai
Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep… — Hari Kunzru
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. — John Ruskin
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell

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