Leaving Quotes
1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors
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If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?
— Ralston Bowles
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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
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
— John Cheever
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
— Twyla Tharp
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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
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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
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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
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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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Sometimes when I'm driving behind a big cement truck, I think of how the valve on the truck could suddenly open, spilling cement over my…
— Jack Handey
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I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.
— Mauricio Cienfuegos
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Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving…
— Namkhai Norbu
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Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's…
— Rod Steiger
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When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's…
— Tim Reid
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After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and…
— Lisa Edelstein
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They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you…
— Tracy Morgan
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I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say no all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got…
— Brad Pitt
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If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?
— Stephen Colbert
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