Leaving famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
-- A. Edward Newton -
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
-- Adam Braun -
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
-- Adam Carolla -
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
-- Adam Osborne -
Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
-- Adrian Rogers -
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
-- Alan Bold -
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
-- Alan Greenspan -
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
-- Alan Shepard -
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 of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
-- Alan Watts -
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
-- Alan Watts -
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
-- Albert Camus -
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
-- Albert Pike -
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
-- Alexander the Great -
I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.
-- Alexandra Roach -
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
-- Alison Gopnik -
The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
-- Alister E. McGrath -
we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.
-- Allan Frewin Jones -
You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey
-- Ally Carter -
There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
-- Ally Condie -
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
-- Amelia Barr -
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.
-- Andre Gide -
She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!
-- Andrew Card -
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
-- Angela Thirkell -
Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.
-- Ann Aguirre -
You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.
-- Ann Herendeen -
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
-- Anna Paquin -
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
-- Annalena McAfee -
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
-- Anne Truitt -
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
-- Annie Lennox -
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.
-- Antonio Damasio -
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
-- Art Garfunkel -
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
-- Arthur Golden -
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
-- August Strindberg -
In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
-- B. B. King -
I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
-- Benedetto Croce -
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 it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
-- Benjamin Rush -
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
-- Bianca Jagger -
Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.
-- Bill Bright -
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
-- Bill Gates -
I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
-- Bill Lipinski -
If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.
-- Bill Simmons -
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
-- Billy Boyd -
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
-- Bob Goff -
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
-- Bobby Sands -
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
-- Bodhidharma -
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
-- Brandon Lee -
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
-- Buffalo Bill -
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
-- C. S. Lewis -
That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake. "And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.
-- C.C. Hunter -
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
-- C.E. Murphy -
Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
-- Caleb Carr -
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
-- Calvin Trillin -
I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
-- Cam Newton -
I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
-- Camilla Luddington -
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
-- Camille Flammarion -
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
-- Carl Sandburg -
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.
-- Carl Schurz -
When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
-- Carol P. Christ -
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
-- Carroll Quigley -
You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.
-- Cassandra Clare -
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
-- Cesare Pavese -
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
-- Charles Fitzgeoffrey -
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
-- Charles Fitzgeoffrey -
You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.
-- Charles Stewart Parnell -
...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank.
-- Charlotte Gerson -
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
-- Chen Guangcheng -
Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
-- Chris Cornell -
I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted.
-- Chris Elam -
Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.
-- Chris Hogan -
Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.
-- Christian D. Larson -
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.
-- Christine Feehan -
Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.
-- Chuck Noll -
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?
-- Clay Aiken -
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.
-- Clive Barker -
The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.
-- Conor McPherson -
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.
-- Cornelius Cardew -
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative†and before you know it, you're writing.
-- Cory Doctorow -
I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'
-- Courteney Cox -
I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.
-- Courtney Summers -
Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party in 2016. He's leaving.
-- Craig Ferguson -
This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
-- Dan Quayle
