Leaving Quotes

1928 quotes by 1411 authors

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us… — Mahatma Gandhi
People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful… — Surya Das
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one… — Alan Watts
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they… — Edmund Waller
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. — Henry Fielding
If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for? — Ralston Bowles
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people,… — Cesare Pavese
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. — John Cheever
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without… — Benjamin Rush
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are… — Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing… — James Salter
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about… — Erica Jong
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be… — Michel Foucault
Art is running away without ever leaving home. — Twyla Tharp
Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain… — Hermann Oberth
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the… — Lord Byron
The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the… — Harold Klemp
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of… — Jeanette Winterson

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