| "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." »Mother Theresa |
| "Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored." »George Saunders |
| "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." »Rose Lane |
| "There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go." »Frederick William Faber |
| "I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any." »Emma Albani |
| "No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." »Francois Mauriac |
| "Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives." »Unknown |
| "Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid." »Harlan Miller |
| "Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will." »John Rocco Savalli |
| "Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500." »Jerry Coleman |
| "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." »John Christian Bovee |
| "I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "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." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill." »Ted Morgan |
| "I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." »P Barnum |
| "Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses." »Charles Kingsley |
| "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang |
| "Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." »Mother Theresa |
| "Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed." »David K. Shipler |
| "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." »M. I. Abramowitz |
| "You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." »Henry Adams |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life." »Quentin Crisp |
| "As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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