Leaving Quotes - Page 18

• It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

  James Elkins

  Play, Numbers, Body

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.49, Routledge

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• I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

  Toni Onley

  Travel, Home, Land

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• If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Wise, Dark, Half

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Rain, Moon, Men

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• I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

  Mika

  Artist, Creating, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Lying, Bullshit, People

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• 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

  Revenge, Men, Generous Man

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Running, Sex, Hate

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• Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Sex, Couple

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• Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Misery, Brackets

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

  John Dryden

  Excellence, Criticism, Littles

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.424

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• The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.

  William Golding

  Men, Artist, Two

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.220, Penguin

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• There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Men, House

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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• The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control.  Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

  Michael Badnarik

  Two, Control Of Your Life, Government

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• We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

  Judith Viorst

  Letting Go, Dream, Moving

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Undone, Should

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

  Caroline Norton

  Running, Dream, Twilight

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1841). “The Dream: And Other Poems”, p.4

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• People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, New York, (§ 14, pp. 38-39), 1915.

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• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  Ramakrishna

  Swans, Water, Sugar

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

  Anthony Trollope

  Father, Book, Blessed

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Framley Parsonage: A Novel”, p.9

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Love, Lying, Fall

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Dad, Father

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

  Larry Wall

  Abuse, May, Language

  Usenet article <199709251614.JAA15718@wall.org>, 1997.

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• I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Ideas, Criminals

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.442, Open Road Media

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