Leaving Me Quotes - Page 16

• I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

  Julie Andrews

  Party, Discipline, Foundation

  Woman & Home, July 2000.

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• Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Ddt, Apples

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

  Lisa Loeb

  Lonely, Feelings, Low Self Esteem

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• Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

  William James Mayo

  Teacher, Science, Experience

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

  Bootsy Collins

  Running, Pain, Rejection

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• Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Eye, Dancing, Rejection

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• Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

  Janis Ian

  More Time

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• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Loss, People

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• I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

  Jason Newsted

  Leaving, Never Regret, Metallica

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• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

  J. B. Priestley

  Death, Prayer, People

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• Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Leaving, Unhappy, Mental Illness

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• My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

  Carole Bouquet

  Beautiful, Husband, Fall

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• I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

  Grete Waitz

  Peace, Hypnosis, Media

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• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  Patsy Cline

  Bullying, Angel, Finals

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• We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, "We are the people, the people of love, let us people love today."All of those who have left, all who are with me, who shall be with me, or who shall leave me, all play a very important role in the development of 3HO-a lifestyle of the Age of Aquarius where humans shall be first and foremost purely human, and will do everything graciously.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Song, Aquarius, Play

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• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

  Lawrence Block

  Morning, Writing, Giving

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• I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Angel, Faces, Peril

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.85, Sounds True

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• People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Self, People

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Mother, Home, Rooms

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• I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

  Katharine McPhee

  Thinking, Stronger, Significant

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• I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Creative, Leaving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Lost, Arise

  Source: home.online.nl

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• I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Daughter, Heart

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• My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

  Walt Whitman

  Ties, Sea, Vision

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.67, University of Iowa Press

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  I also sing about my mom leaving me a lot - a lot of kids have their moms or dads leave them, so they relate to that. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I think that's what the kids love.

  Ronnie Radke

  Mom, Dad, Heart

  Source: fallinginreversefansite.weebly.com

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