Top Leaving Quotes Collection
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God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.Collection: Leaving
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.Collection: Leaving
Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.Collection: Leaving
Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.Collection: Leaving
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.Collection: Leaving
Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.Collection: Leaving
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.Collection: Leaving
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.Collection: Leaving
I don't want to go without leaving a trace.Collection: Leaving
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.Collection: Leaving
I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.Collection: Leaving
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.Collection: Leaving
I'm not leaving until you say yes.Collection: Leaving
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.Collection: Leaving
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.Collection: Leaving
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.Collection: Leaving
Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.Collection: Leaving
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand itCollection: Leaving
I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.Collection: Leaving
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.Collection: Leaving
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.Collection: Leaving
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.Collection: Leaving
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving the body 'uncontrolled' is spoken of, what is meant is simply allowing the body to remain in an authentic, uncorrected condition, in which it is not necessary to modify or improve anything. This is because, since all our attempts at correcting the body come from the reasoning mind, they are all false and artificial.Collection: Leaving
You can kind of ask around for details. You might get a little information here and there, even from the other actors, or "One person heard that..." I feel like the writers are always leaving their options open.Collection: Leaving
We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.Collection: Leaving
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.Collection: Leaving
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.Collection: Leaving
I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.Collection: Leaving
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.Collection: Leaving
In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.Collection: Leaving
I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.Collection: Leaving
We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.Collection: Leaving
Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.Collection: Leaving
We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.Collection: Leaving
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.Collection: Leaving
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.Collection: Leaving
Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.Collection: Leaving
I can't take this any more, I'm out of here - on leaving Hell's KitchenCollection: Leaving
Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.Collection: Leaving
That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?Collection: Leaving
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)Collection: Leaving
I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.Collection: Leaving
A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.Collection: Leaving
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.Collection: Leaving
There comes a time when everyone wants to re-evaluate their life and what they want out of it.Collection: Leaving
Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.Collection: Leaving
The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.Collection: Leaving
The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.Collection: Leaving
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.Collection: Leaving
Sometimes leaving is the only way to be there for someone.Collection: Leaving