Quotes with leaves

  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
  • Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
  • The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
  • There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
  • The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
  • But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
  • None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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  • Will Rogers Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carlo Goldoni He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices
    Carlo Goldoni
    Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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  • Emily Dickinson To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carol Shields A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Heywood Broun A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • B. F. Skinner A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marilyn Monroe A smart girl leaves before she is left.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Butch Trucks After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Charles Mackay An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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