Leaving Quotes - Page 5

• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Mind

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• It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.

  Greg Egan

  June, Airports, Car

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• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

  Lisa Gilbert

  Break Up, Love You, Want

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• Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
  To say goodbye
  Isn't a pain
  Unless you're never going...!
  (Tee hee)

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Pain, Farewell

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• I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Independent, Way In Life, Proud

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• Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

  Mike Figgis

  Vegas, Trying, Retrospect

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• After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Vegas, Mirrors, Careers

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Departed, Aristocracy

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• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  House Of Cards, Interesting, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Sleep, Stories

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• I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

  Chris Chocola

  Believe, Idaho, Security Systems

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• My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

  Christopher Bond

  Son, Sacrifice, Iraq

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• I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live.

  Ma-Roo

  Love, Drama, Want

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Monday, Father, Book

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• The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity, Building, Status Quo

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• In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade.
  And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down...
  or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
  "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Cutting, Gloves

  "The Boxer" (song) (1968)

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• There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Fall, Sky

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• He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

  Patrick Mouratoglou

  Country, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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• Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Responsibility, Discovery

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• I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

  Anne Tyler

  Baby, Thinking, Waiting

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Love Is, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Reminiscing No one knows ... until you live it, to be there, to tee it up each week, to get yourself ready, the players and whatever else.... I think its a very, very difficult, tough and demanding job. And to be able to, particularly, stay at the level of expertise that we have over the years. Along with the fact that we have made football a presence at BYU. I think those are the things that are about as satisfying as anything that has happened. Then, of course, the players.... I think the thing that will be the most difficult is leaving the relationships and the involvement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Jobs, Player

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