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Quotes including the word “leave”.

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Akhmatova

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Graham Bell

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”

Karen Blixen

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

Amílcar Cabral

“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”

Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.’

Democritus

The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.

Epicurus

Better to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Khalil Gibran

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Gracian

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ibsen

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Juan Jimenez

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Wanda Landowska

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Nelson Mandela

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

Aziz Nesin

I understand that you'll leave I am already ruined, I can't collapse But leave your color with me

Aziz Nesin

I know you'll break off I can't hold your hair But leave your smell with me

Aziz Nesin

I perceive that you will run away.. I can't beg, I can't run But leave your voice with me

Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Valery Paul

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Pericles

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in α stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Proudhon

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Renoir

“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”

Virginia Satir

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Paul Verlaine

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

Stefan Zweig

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.