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"Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one."
"A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism."
"I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real."
"Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me."
"And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them."
"Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart."
"That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings."
"Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space."
"I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old."
"Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you."
"A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools."
"And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out."
"People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them."
"Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest."
"The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly."
"I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal."
"There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood."
"He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind."
"All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him."
"And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life."
