Quotes by Leaving I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow. Joanne Harris fragmentsleavingchance Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave. Jody Heymann leavinghomecountry Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. Joanne Harris leavingwritingbook I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. Jodie Foster leavingcollegeopportunity I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. Jimmy Buffett climateleavinghonesty "Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand. Jim Gaffigan leavingnew-yorkhands I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line. Joe Budden linesleavingpresident There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic. Joan Didion piecesleavingwriting I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated. Joel Madden tonightleavingwant Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard," she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. "Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that it?" Joey Green leavingheartlife You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. Jodi Picoult piecesleavingworld If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. Johannes Brahms insulted-himpardonleaving Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. John Banville leavingpreparationlong Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes. John Caples leavinghalfstruggle Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. Jodi Picoult leavingknowingdecision Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain. John C. Bogle assumingriskleaving When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. John Cheever leavingfamilyremember We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. John Cage quantityleavingrooms The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs. John Dingell affairleavingmistake I'm leaving on a jet plane John Denver leavingsongtravel«1920212223242526272829»
