Leaving Quotes - Page 8

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

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity, Building, Status Quo

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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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• ...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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• By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

  Rob Hopkins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oil

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

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• The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

  Alex Tabarrok

  People, Giving, Attention

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• Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

  John Bradshaw

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, Home

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Why'd you leave the match, huh?

  Lleyton Hewitt

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• I don't want to go without leaving a trace.

  Somaly Mam

  Want

  Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 07, 2011.

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• However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, Home, Parent

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Military, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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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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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Temptation, Sin, Pleasure

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• An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly delineated in the Scriptures. Unless both husband and wife agree, such extra-Biblical standards should not be automatically carried over from one family to another.

  Lou Priolo

  Husband, Biblical, Wife

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Around The World, Irony

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• Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  Walker Evans

  Religious, Stars, War

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