The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it
Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. " "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Theres no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that hes chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
Don't talk about yourself so much. . . we'll do that when you leave.
I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A. M. and I'm not hungry.
Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
Leave everything you do, every place you go, everything you touch a little better for your having been there.
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.
Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.