Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.
It would send an unbelievably terrible signal to reformers across the region. It would say we've abandoned our desire to change the conditions that create terror. It would give the terrorists a safe haven from which to launch attacks. It would embolden Iran. It would embolden extremists. That's why we're not leaving Iraq.
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.
When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water. "
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
A true gentleman never leaves his lady.