Quotation Explorer - 'Leaves'

... I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now. - Claire North
Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future. - Jürgen Moltmann
There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky’s muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing - Munia Khan
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. In the morning that lady requested breakfast and taxi money. You don't ask for taxi money from somebody who raped you. - Julius Malema
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple? - Nora Roberts
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. - John Muir
When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes. - Marty Rubin
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere. - Anthony Liccione
When the beauty and warmth of summer is here,then dancing leaves with colors are not too far. - Debasish Mridha
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. - Chad Sugg
Welcome to where time stands stillNo one leaves and no one willMoon is full, never seems to changeJust labeled mentally derangedDream the same thing every nightI see our freedom in my sightNo locked doors, No windows barredNo things to make my brain seem scarred - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium
The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. - Alfred Tennyson
silence in the lightover thick bamboo leaves, the sunmagical yellow- , Day's Crown Haiku - Tara Estacaan
It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend. - Acharya Mahapragya
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -, author (1895-1983) - Jose Bergamin
I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air. - Saim Cheeda
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return - Tom Hiddleston
And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves. - Hubert Martin
People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall. - Naveed A. Khan
That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. - L. Frank Baum
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell
Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace. - Palle Oswald
...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily...and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works." —Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19 - Douai-Rheims Bible
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased. - Mehmet Murat ildan
If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you. - Tim Burton
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. - Victor Hugo
Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. - Ashly Lorenzana
Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. - Marty Rubin
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
1715Whatever, however anybody leaves you alone and you think its your fault, its wrong, you are not alone because.... God is always with you, its not your fault the person who gone is just not perfect for you..! - Irfa Rahat
The yellow moon dreamilytipping buttons of lightdown among the leaves. Marimba,marimba - from beyond theblack street.Somebody dancing,somebodygetting the helloutta here. Shadows of catsweave round the treetrunks,the exposed knotty roots.("Scenes from the Life of the Peppertrees") - Denise Levertov
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. - John Berger
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. - E.E. Cummings
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. - Johnny Depp
Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father. - Stella Payton
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves. - Dada Bhagwan
She blows kisses to the one who danced through her dreams and leaves a trail of moon dust on her heart... - Virginia Alison
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark. - Anonymous
The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there. - Adi Alsaid
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems - Walt Whitman
The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better. - C. JoyBell C.
Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Worry is the only emotion that never leaves a human's heart. - Luffina Lourduraj
Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up?? - bheng927
The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die. - Dan B. Allender, The Healing Path
i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods. - Hanimoz Obey
A smart girl leaves before she is left - Marilyn Monroe
We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze - Rasheed Ogunlaru
As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. - Jason E. Hodges
Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can never be predicted. The only certainty it brings... is the devastation it leaves in its wake. - Emily Thorne
The trees are born, they develop their leaves and fruits, they grow and die. I can't ever understand why a tree is a "what" and not a "who". - Sophia Newtown
I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all. - Harriet Blaine
A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. - Eric Sloane
I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition. - Kellie Elmore
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. - Homer
I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves. - Debasish Mridha
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. - Walter Savage Landor
Leaves leave this world in beautiful fall colors and songs. - Debasish Mridha
Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead. - Kristen Henderson
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. - John Keats
It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush. - Nathanael West
I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh. Every thrust, every touch, every moan that escapes her lips...they are famine to my soul, and I still can't let her go. - Hubert Martin
The fact that I know I'm a fool leaves me hope that I may not be, - C Mack Lewis
When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains. - P. Wish
Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She’d come here with too many expectations. - Sarah Addison Allen
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf
When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves - Welcome wool sweaters. - B. Cybrill
Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented. - Truman Capote
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. - William Alexander
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love. - Kamand Kojouri
What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you. - Anthony Liccione
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. - Erwin W. Lutzer
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey
For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves. - Rolf Jacobsen
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. - Joe L. Wheeler
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow. - Donna Tartt
When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone - Misti Hemlock
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess. - Craig Groeschel
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste - Rasheed Ogunlaru
The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Nahisha McCoy
The first love is the one that leaves an everlasting impression on the heart. - Auliq Ice
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - Buddha
From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves. - Toni Morrison
A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins. - Heywood Broun
She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, —if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay. - Nathan Reese Maher
You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened. - J. Richard Singleton
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. - James Carroll
Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving. - Kim Briggs
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces. - Lisa Lantieri
CodaPerhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.To learn to be silentlike the oak and the linden of the fable.To learn to see.Your glance scattered seeds.It planted a tree. I talkbecause you shake its leaves. - Octavio Paz
Don't leave your elders as Fallen Leaves. - Pawan Prakash Tirkey
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka
I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here. - C. JoyBell C.
Two seeds destined to grow in concert, planted together in the field of love.’ She took in a lungful of air and continued. ‘The sky cast wet buckets of dreams and desires, the roots took shape, and the leaves tangled as one. - Christina Lee
Because one dead leaves every material back, even the body, but what is taken is the soul with memories. - Riku H. Petro
The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. - Mark Denman
Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. - Mark W. Boyer
It was only one man who had gone, but it felt like forever, something so permanent and unstoppable that it blasted her. If she were a tree, she would drop all her leaves. - Jenny Downham
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. - Bill Vaughan
Where there is a blanket of hate, uplift it with the strong arms of love. If there is pain, heal it with your kind words and gentle touch. In the face of anger, stay so calm and unfazed that anger leaves the room. - Pooja Ruprell
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it. - Jeffrey Tayler
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. - Tony McCollum
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. - Hodding Carter
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud. - Shannon L. Alder
...atheism leaves no room for excuses... - Travis Culliton
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. - Paulo Coelho
Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices. - Steven Magee
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. - Graeme Smith
No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
When you get up in the morning, you select what you want to wear, however you do not realise you can also select what thoughts you are going to have. Your clothe leaves an impression on other people, your thoughts leaves an impression on you, choose wisely - - - Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened. - Jason Dias
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) - William Shakespeare
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - John Ruskin
The Coming of Wisdom with TimeThough leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth. - W.B. Yeats
..the feeling that you felt something weird..then you just shut your mouth for tears keep falling from your eyes..sharp knives tearing your heart in pieces and it leaves you wondering...are you enough?? was your love enough?? or still...whatever you do..you can never replace someone's first love.. - Grace Tamio
When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The works which this leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.{Cuvier on Joseph Banks} Georges Cuvier - man
Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated like flecks in an eye, a whirlpool, a sea-shell. Ch.19 - B.T. Lowry
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. - D.H. Lawrence
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! - Mehmet Murat ildan
life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off. - Iyonna Williams
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. - Chinese Proverb
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel
In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay. - Marty Rubin
Love as river loves the ocean.Love as air loves the leaves. - Debasish Mridha
curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere - Jeffrey Rasley
If you ask me what remains to be known in the future, I’ll say, ‘Memorize all the world’s encyclopedias.’ Once you do that, forget all that fancy junk and rake the leaves else I’m gonna take a stick to you, boy. - M.C. Humphreys
Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. - Natsume Soseki
Happiness lives in every corner of your home and if you are homeless, it lives under the leaves of trees, hiding beneath the sky's cloudiness. All you need to do is to find it with patience. - Munia Khan
When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. - Victoria Lamb
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished. - Mohammad PBUH
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. - Woody Allen
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. - William Hazlitt
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe. - Kemi Sogunle
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. - Homer
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. - Henry Beston
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. - Samuel Butler
Don't leave life until life leaves you.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! - Fatima Masood
The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey. - Frank Wanderer
The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. - Jennifer Birkett
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow. - Amit Ray
Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal. - Dada Bhagwan
It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us! - Mehmet Murat ildan
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. - George Gissing
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. - George Packer
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. - Salman Rushdie
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha Gautama
True love leaves no room for insecurities. - Vanshicca Dhyani
If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Spring, the snow must go; fall, the leaves can't stay. - Marty Rubin
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing nothing except our original nature, pure awareness. - Enza Vita
Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness - Munia Khan
Once more, my harp! once more, although I thoughtNever to wake thy silent strings again,A wandering dream thy gentle chords have wrought,And my sad heart, which long hath dwelt in pain,Soars, like a wild bird from a cypress bough,Into the poet's Heaven, and leaves dull grief below - Caroline Norton
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.— - Leonard Bernstein
A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option. - Justin David Nevins
The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home. - Mark Denman
I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations. - Jael McHenry
The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon
In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. - Graydon Carter
Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or the street cries all about.Where I may read at all my easeboth of the new and old,For a jolly good book whereon to lookis better to me than gold - John Wilson
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. - P.S. Bartlett
Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect. - Louise Mullins
Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature. - Debasish Mridha
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison
Some people come into your life like a flower. She fills your heart with love, amuses your mind with her beauty, and leaves you with enduring joy because she once touched your life. - Debasish Mridha
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. - Jacob Bronowski
Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new - Pam Brown
A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It’s up to you. - Vicky Arthurs
When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength. - Hayley DiMarco
She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the live of the party. - Groucho Marx
Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you. - Ray A. Davis
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. - Martin Luther King Jr.
As I sit down each day and think through how much my parents had to sacrifice in order to send me to school, it leaves me to ask myself at the end of each day what have I done for them today. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere. - Stanisław Lem
I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume... - George Gordon Byron
For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety. - Joyce Rachelle
Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move. - V.S. Atbay
Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal. The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack. - Teresa Tsalaky
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? - Oscar Wilde
One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places! - Mehmet Murat ildan
God leaves footprints wherever He goes;love alone uncovers them. - Matshona Dhliwayo
when you have no spirit to seize the day, find it behind the music, between the flowing leaves, beneath the sun rays, and just within yourself. Talk to yourself, be the best friend for yourself, and do not hesitate to ask God help - Maria Magdalena
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding. - Lao Tzu
If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season. - Shana Chartier
I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness. - Lisa Tuttle
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man’s flying to the land of silence. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me. - Alfred Tennyson
How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.] - J.R. Richard
Watch an Ant, Watch the bees, feel wind move the leaves. Touch your smile above your chin from the glorious world we all live in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars. - Marty Rubin
Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life! - Stanley Victor Paskavich
When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to,I am like a treeplanted by a river,a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased) - Marie-Hélène Delval
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. - Walter Benjamin
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle. - Thich Nhat Hanh
If seen from the outside, our lives are like leaves from the trees that seem to just feel the blows of the wind outside. But they have their life of their own so long as they are attached to the tree. An eye of introspection can make miracles happen for each one of us. - Taranpreet Singh
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves
Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered - Dan Davin
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. - Voltaire
The Lilly may fade and its leaves decay, The Rose from its stem may sever, The Shamrock and Thistle may pass away, But the Stars will shine forever.
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. - Brandon Mull
Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. - Auliq Ice
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann. - Ignatius Fernandez
Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking. - RJ Clawson
Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away. - Dada Bhagwan
The clouds above us join and separate,The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating? - Lu Yu
I wish for all who look for Gold,Shall find one letter less,A world where trying always wins,And leaves the loser blessed. - Frederic M. Perrin
There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time. - Coco Chanel
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future. - John Steinbeck
That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination. - Jonathan Franzen
‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. - Simone de Beauvoir
The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded... - Plato
Don't depend on anyone as your own shadow leaves you in darkness. - Malik Waqar Ul Hassan
A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Love as air loves the leaves. - Debasish Mridha
Happiness that comes and never leaves; it is called the bliss of the Soul. - Dada Bhagwan
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. - T.D. Jakes
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines. - D.H. Lawrence
And see the peaceful trees extendtheir myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloudupon the fountain of their veins. - Kathleen Raine
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. - Victor Hugo
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. - Kelly Link
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. - Rabindranath Tagore
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers. - Moonshine Noire
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. - Henry James
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins. - Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money. - Amit Kalantri
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets. - Suman Pokhrel
If someone leaves you, don't be depressed. They just did not deserve you. And always remember, "Whatever happens, happens for the best". - Raynold Manuel
Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become. - Darryl Stewart Wellness
Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these. - Ashly Lorenzana
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves. - Timothy J. Keller
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. - Andrea Gibson
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. - George Bernard Shaw
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