Leaving Quotes - Page 26

• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Swings, Doors

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  New Orleans, Europe, United States

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• Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Book, Blessed

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• Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Space, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.222

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• I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Sorry, Regret, Heart

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

  William Faulkner

  Ambition, Individual, My Ambition

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wish, Sparks, Existence

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• We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Nature, Touching

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• If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

  Will Ferrell

  Children, Book, Years

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• Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

  Dan Buettner

  Life, Years, America

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• The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

  Ringo Starr

  Feet, Pants, Trouble

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• I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Baby, Fans

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• And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Space, Flying

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying.

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, May, Wonderful

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• I don't believe in leaving a scene in because it was really hard to shoot, or because it's the reason you took the movie, or because you always wanted to work with an actor . . . If it's not making the movie work, get rid of it.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Believe, Actors, Reason

  Source: collider.com

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• Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Age

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• No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

  Anne Enright

  Children, Safe, Thirty

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Earth, Enough

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

  Adam Croasdell

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

  Karen Walker

  Mirrors, House, Looks

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• We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.

  Myles Munroe

  Jesus, People, Focus

  Source: encomium.ng

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• The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going to have an answer. Just live your life, do what you have to do, what you are enthusiastic about doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Issues, Live Your Life, One Day

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• The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Math, Keys

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• Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'.

  Jack Canfield

  Mother, Hero, Humble

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