Leaving Quotes - Page 34

• I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Rain, House

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

  Henning Mankell

  Running, Country, Independence

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

  Ray Walston

  Hands, Should Have, Careers

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• Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,
  If only for moments…
  And then be gone,
  With gladness in your heart,
  Before the creeping shadows
  Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

  Scott Hastie

  Heart, Sadness, Light

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• By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

  Eugen Herrigel

  Letting Go, Tension, Behinds

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

  Eddie Long

  Don't Leave Me, Leaving Me, Ifs

  "Rick's List" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.

  Danny Bautista

  Team, Play, Giving

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• One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

  Annalena McAfee

  Book, Lists, Journalism

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• I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Sorry, Years, News

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• The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

  Tina Sloan

  Simple, Games, Careers

  Tina Sloan (2010). “Changing Shoes: Staying in the Game with Style, Humor, and Grace”, p.63, Penguin

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• Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Blood, Hands

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Events, Rooms, Common

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• When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Sadness, Men, Paris

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Ideas

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.

  Frank Hall

  Animal, Space, Squirrels

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• ...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

  Salvador Bernal

  Perseverance, Work, Roots

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• Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

  Emun Elliott

  Love, Drama, School

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• When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Children, Crazy

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Leaving Him, Shows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, Speech at Ennis (19 September 1880), 1922.

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• It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2007). “New Day, New You: 365 Devotions for Enjoying Everyday Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique. . . . your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o.k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.

  Julie Halston

  Unique, Thinking, Two

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• What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

  Vincent de Paul

  Son, Men, World

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• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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• [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.

  Iain Pears

  Believe, Passion, Men

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