Let Him Go Quotes - Page 2

• The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

  Emily Giffin

  Past, Thinking, Trump

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

  Carlos Castaneda

  Strong, Moving, Eye

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• There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Together, Glue

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.365, Penguin

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• I find that a duck's opinion of me is influenced by whether or not I have bread. A duck loves bread, but he does not have the capability to buy a loaf. That's the biggest joke on the duck ever. If I worked at a convenience store, and a duck came in and stole a loaf of bread, I would let him go. I'd say, "Come back tomorrow, bring your friends!" When I think of a duck's friends, I think of other ducks. But he could have, say, a beaver in tow.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Inspiration, Home, Men

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• If some heterosexual wants to be gay, so what? Let him go. It's less competition for the heterosexual single guys.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gay, Guy, Competition

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.

  George Herbert

  Gentleman, Would Be, Assault

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• Ive fostered five dogs for the Best Friends Program, which is an amazing no-kill sanctuary for animals, as well as a greyhound named Natasha from the greyhound rescue. All of my fosters have taught me great lessons like patience, nurture, and responsibility. My last foster dog was a Cocker Spaniel, and I couldnt let him go. I adopted him!

  Olesya Rulin

  Dog, Responsibility, Animal

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• If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Six, Assassins

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• Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

  Harold Pinter

  Looks, Shoulders, Be Careful

  Harold Pinter (2008). “Ashes to Ashes and Other Plays”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• In Dogen's writing, the practical instruction, philosophy and poetry are together in one voice. People hear about his poetry, go to his work, and expect to find poetry, or they hear about his philosophy and expect to find philosophy. They look just for practical instruction and find poetry and philosophy. They can't make out the complexity of his writing, become frustrated and let him go.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Philosophy, Writing, Voice

  Source: blogs.sfzc.org

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• We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Self, Justice, Ears

  On slavery in the United States, 1820, in J. C. Miller 'The Wolf by the Ears' (1977)

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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

  Russell Lynes

  Men, Addiction, Tennis

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• Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Carrie

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He may be out of my life physically, but he’ll always be a part of me. I can’t let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn’t mean my life has to be on hold. I can’t keep running after ghosts.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Mean, Heart

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• In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.

  J.R. Ward

  Boys, Past, Silence

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2677, Penguin

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• You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there’s a little thing outside called the sun...yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn’t be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Time Zones, Littles, Tailors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.284, Macmillan

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• She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  I Can

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• For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

  John Calvin

  Art, Mind, Principles

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• It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silence, Goes On, Fool

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Mean, Parent

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• The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Letting Go, Struggle, Bears

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• If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

  Robert Benchley

  Law, Comedy, Natural

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• Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

  Anna Godbersen

  Regret, Alive, Weight

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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