Leaving Quotes - Page 29

• When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

  Karl Jaspers

  Events, Chaos, Isolation

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• Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

  John Stossel

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.

  Jesse Ventura

  Decision, May, Vote

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• Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Democracy, Void

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• Forever. My brother is not a bad person. The best thing for Marc now is leaving college, getting away from a bunch of people he was around every day. Now he'll have a chance to play in the NFL and have somebody who can be there with him and can guide him in the right direction.

  Michael Vick

  Brother, College, Play

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• Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Lying, Animal, Order

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• Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Mean, Heaven

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.46, Multnomah

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• Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

  Harry Gordon Johnson

  People, Blinded

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• My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.

  Bee Dawson

  Strong, Lying, Soil

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• We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Yellow, Elbows, Tongue

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• Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

  Confucius

  House, House Guests, Guests

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• Nathan Lane's Bus of Broadway Fun will be leaving shortly.

  Jon Stewart

  Fun, Broadway, Lanes

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• War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

  A. O. Scott

  Sex, War, Population

  "Another Terror Attack, but Not by Humans" by A. O. Scott, movies2.nytimes.com. June 29, 2005.

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• In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Two, Mind, Machines

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• Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.

  Dennis Prager

  Moving, Weather, California

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• If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

  Eric Braeden

  Children, Kids, Home

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

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• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Iran

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Now Europe are experiencing a wave of eroding solidarity, first of certain societies and then entire governments. At the same time, we have two giant new challenges to meet: the migration movement and terror. And then Great Britain is thinking about leaving the EU. That should suffice as a description.

  Martin Schulz

  Thinking, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We live in an interconnected world, and you cannot prevent people from leaving. What you need to do is to create opportunities. At the same time, people are also coming back.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Opportunity, People, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).

  Mona Charen

  Children, School, Thinking

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• Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

  Rick Steves

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.16, Avalon Travel

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• Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.

  Alex Katz

  Thinking, Missing, Mind

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• Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

  Lauren Oliver

  Book, Finishing, World

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