Quotes with leaving

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  • Erica Jong 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 leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Alexander the Great It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die leaving behind everlasting renown.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Bobby Darin It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
    As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Billy Boyd 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. It's not glam.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Bobby Cox Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Cam Newton 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
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Theresa May Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
    British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union (2017)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Candice Bergen Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Harlan Miller Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
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    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
    Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry in Complete Poems (1950)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Pepys Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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