Ready To Leave Quotes

• For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.

  Gayle King

  Morning, Fire, People

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• There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Separation, Ready

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

  Kelly Macdonald

  New York, Long, Never Quit

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Order, Government, Ottomans

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• I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Hours, Ready

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Deception, Invention

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it.

  Jorja Fox

  Philosophy, Grateful, Play

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• I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'

  Josh Schwartz

  Girl, Drama, Book

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• What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Choices, Economic

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2009.

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• I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

  Donna Tartt

  Sublime, World, Phenomenal

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.34, Vintage

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• They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

  James Salter

  Falling In Love, Mean, Men

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• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Regret, Heart, Two

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Aunt, Boys

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

  Theophile Gautier

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

  James Salter

  Falling In Love, Men, Opposites

  FaceBook post by James Salter from Feb 24, 2013

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• I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

  Claire Forlani

  England, Reason, Absurd

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• Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Ready

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Boots, Should

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20.

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• As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Country, Moving, People

  "Actor, Activist Danny Glover: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide “Mystified” at US Resistance to His Return". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

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