Leaving Quotes - Page 10

• When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Children, Crazy

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Leaving Him, Shows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, Speech at Ennis (19 September 1880), 1922.

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• It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2007). “New Day, New You: 365 Devotions for Enjoying Everyday Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique. . . . your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o.k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.

  Julie Halston

  Unique, Thinking, Two

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• What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

  Vincent de Paul

  Son, Men, World

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• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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• [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.

  Iain Pears

  Believe, Passion, Men

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• There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

  John Galsworthy

  Wine, Feet, Air

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.658, e-artnow

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• And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.

  Jack Finney

  Rain, Wind, Feet

  Jack Finney (2013). “About Time: 12 Short Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

  Cesar Aira

  Flower, Moon, Bird

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• 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

  Order, Somewhere Else, Interesting

  Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.324, Ballantine Books

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• Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, 'Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.' He grinned and jokingly said, 'Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I'll let you know.' It's hard to overuse the expression, 'I love you.' Use it daily.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Love, Mother, Father

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• If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

  Waylon Jennings

  Grieving, Worry, Disappear

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• It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Men, Unique

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

  June Allyson

  Stars, Children, Coffee

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

  Maurice Sendak

  Legacy, Leaving A Legacy, Ripe

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

  Andrew Card

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, multimedia.cbs.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

  John Dingell

  Mistake, Affair, Made

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Light, Rooms

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• Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

  Hugh Nibley

  People, Mind, Television

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.

  Chrisette Michele

  Hair, Iron, Alcohol

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• Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.

  Jerry Stahl

  Skins, Nerves, Layers

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• 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

  Ideas, Trying, Sound

  Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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• Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kings, Wwe, People

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• When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Eye, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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