Leaving Quotes - Page 28

• You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

  Peter Marshall

  Nature, Rocks, Hands

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Book, Hands, Generosity

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.

  Jim Thompson

  Girl, Running, Jobs

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.

  John Morton

  Calling, Done, World

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• I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

  John Robinson

  Important, Trying, Emotion

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• I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

  Frank McCourt

  Snakes, Skins, Looks

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• If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Jealous

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• You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Theater

  "13 Rules for Making Documentary Films" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2014.

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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Men, People

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• If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

  James Buchanan

  Happiness, Country, Home

  1861 Said on welcoming his successor, Abraham Lincoln, to the White House.

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• I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

  Francis Bacon

  Looks, Slime, Trails

  "The human zoo" by Gordon Burn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

  Robert Altman

  President, France, Ifs

  "Director Vows To Flee U.S. If Bush Wins". abcnews.go.com.

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• I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

  John Dyer

  Canvas, Sometimes, Paint

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• If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

  Bob Edwards

  Jobs, White, Blue

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• At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

  James Thurber

  Flower, Writing, May

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.149, Library of America

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• Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Long, Lessons

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• Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Thinking, Dust

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• I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.

  Jeff Kent

  Home, Tired, Kids

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• I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Home, Knowing, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Tired, Fighting

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]

  Gerard Houllier

  Political, Balance, Important

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• A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

  Marvin Sapp

  Powerful, Regret, Thinking

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