Time To Leave Quotes

• I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

  Asne Seierstad

  Thinking

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

  Michael Stipe

  Wise, Party, Men

  "Mike Mills on why R.E.M. are calling it quits" by David Fricke, www.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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• The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Games, Long

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• There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Important Words, Unsaid

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• Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Cutting, Organization, Two

  Institutional Investor Magazine, September 2001.

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• The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Party, Home

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Moments, Unbound

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 02, 2012

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• When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

  Kelly Cutrone

  Party, Persons, Happenings

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

  Chris Noth

  Character, Talking, People

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• Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

  Emily Yoffe

  Ideas, People, Mind

  "Lipstick on a Kid". Live chat, www.slate.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

  Stefan Zweig

  Eye, Feelings, Rooms

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

  Greg Smith

  Eye, Looks, Students

  "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs". www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

  Alec Baldwin

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

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• We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

  Dave Kellett

  World, Found, Finite

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2016

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• It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

  Amy Poehler

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

  Kenny Rogers

  Relationship, Children, Four

  FaceBook post by Kenny Rogers from Sep 22, 2016

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• At that time we didn't have much movement within our team. [ Pit Riley] pushed us as much as he could from a mental stand point. He knew it was time to leave and for us as players we knew it was time to part ways.

  John Starks

  Team, Player, Movement

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Fun

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• The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Theatre, Needs, Action

  "Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989.

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• Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

  Leni Zumas

  Thinking, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

  Chris Christie

  Hurt, Selfish, Sacrifice

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• When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Long, Port

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• It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Past, Battle

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Rome, Play, Burning

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• I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

  Dith Pran

  Believe, House, Body

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