Leaving Quotes

• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Enough
  • Stories
  • Grace

• Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Youth

• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  

  Daniel K Judd
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Joy

• I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

  

  Keith Carter
  • Photography
  • Narrative
  • Implied

• In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

  

  William James
  • Strong
  • Care
  • Habit

• 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
  • Giving
  • Team
  • Chance

• Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.

  

  Walter Heller
  • Economics
  • Supply
  • Amelia

• I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Thinking
  • Distance
  • Everything

• I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

  

  Richard Kind
  • Children
  • Acting
  • Leaving

• You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Leaving

• Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

  

  Doc Hastings
  • Risk
  • Military
  • Leaving

• It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Empires
  • Globes
  • Barbarians

• And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Leaving

• He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Walking
  • Leaving
  • Look Back

• We can do a bit of blaming: the proliferation of devices means we're always at work, always on call, always available. Physically leaving the office isn't a declaration of being off work anymore; your office is in your bag or pocket.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • Office
  • Blame
  • Declaration

• The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.

  

  William Golding
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artist

• You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

  

  Ally Carter
  • Leaving
  • Okay
  • First Time

• Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

  

  Michael Masser
  • Chance
  • Consciousness
  • Comfortable

• I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • House
  • Feels
  • Cities

• I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Message

• There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Connections

• In some ways I feel sad about leaving NASA, but the reality is, I won't fly again.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Reality
  • I Feel
  • NASA

• If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Leaving

• Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Change
  • Alone
  • Others

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