Top 100 He Left Quotes
#1. Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled as if they would welcome him back. That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered foundly.
Robert Jordan
#2. The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Stephen Greenblatt
#3. Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid's chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people - which I didn't appreciate, and which I wasn't particularly good at.
Rick Riordan
#4. One cannot live on cock alone," Etienne called out as he left the stable. "God knows I've tried!
Rosemary O'Malley
#5. According to Cecilia, Valdivia's star rose when he met me and began to decline when he left me behind, a frightening theory because I do not want the glory for his successes or the guilt for his failures. Each of us is master of his or her own destiny.
Isabel Allende
#6. All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.
Dodie Smith
#7. Money was not a living thing. It wouldn't run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.
Haruki Murakami
#8. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
Jane Bowles
#9. He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.
Markus Zusak
#10. Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.
Leigh Bardugo
#11. Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard. She looked at him stupidly, so he left her there.
George R R Martin
#12. You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away. And then he left.
Tarryn Fisher
#13. He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
Suetonius
#14. He left bloody fingerprints on the rock, but there was something satisfying about that.
I was here. I exist. I'm alive, because I bleed.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. My father left ... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
J. R. Martinez
#16. He got up and there were both of us in our underwear and this kid goes through the whole thing again, all the closets, the bathroom, everything else and then he left.
Rod Steiger
#17. When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long time before he left. But I miss him. I can feel loneliness in my like circulation; as constant and as irrefutable.
Elizabeth Berg
#19. Jesus wanted the twelve leaders to remember the example He left just hours before crucifixion. He wanted them to understand that the servant spirit is critical to the development of spiritual leaders.
Teresa Hampton
#20. He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her - that he was leaving her behind.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan
#22. I asked the cardiologist why an electrocardiogram was called an EKG, instead of an ECG.
He said, "Nazis. Nazis invented the machine."
After he left, I found a napkin on my breakfast tray and wrote that down: EKG = Nazis.
Monica Drake
#23. For better or worse, we'd ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, we'd crossed a line. He'd breached some new invisible boundary I'd never known was there.
Meredith Wild
#24. A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.
Donnie Burns
#25. And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?
Lewis Carroll
#26. Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden
#27. I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican.
Kevin Hart
#28. (T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
Tammy Bruce
#30. It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own.
Orson Scott Card
#31. If he'll let me. But he left the hospital without talking to me. I don't know what that means."Screw that. "Yes, of course I'll see him again. Isaiah and I are friends and he's going to realize that evenif I have to take a two-by-four to him.
Katie McGarry
#32. Ah, but it wasn't all right, and Jo did mind, for while the curly head lay on her arm a minute after her hard answer, she felt as if she had stabbed her dearest friend, and when he left her without a look behind him, she knew that the boy Laurie never would come again.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. Oh, Iko ... what happened?" "More stupid Lunar guards, that's what happened. He cornered me in the basement of the med-clinic and did this. I had to play dead until he left me alone. Good thing they have no idea how to kill an android here.
Marissa Meyer
#34. whatever that he left by the 6.15. That gets up to London about 10.30. He went straight to
Agatha Christie
#35. Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.
Douglas Brinkley
#36. I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
Eva Braun
#37. Minx, he whispered before he left me to get dressed so that we could plan our new destiny.
Gwen Hayes
#38. In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble.
Ryne Sandberg
#39. I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.
Slash
#40. God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#41. And in the space he left behind, in the loss of him, she felt an actual physical pain in her belly. She'd lost a friend and she didn't have many of those.
Jenny Downham
#42. The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.
Argus Hamilton
#43. I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.
Lauren Bush
#44. In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#45. Weep for a dead man, for he left the light behind; But weep over a fool, for he left intelligence behind.
Anonymous
#46. By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#47. Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and held it against my chest. This was who he was. But it also was not. It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit. No one could possess it.
Amy Tan
#48. A storm caught them on the way. The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn.
George R R Martin
#49. I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.
Noah Hawley
#50. When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
Ted Cruz
#51. Do you know what the worst part of losing him is? The regret -- that he left before we could somehow find each other again. And now all I think about are the things I wish I'd told him before he died.
Frances Norris
#52. We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood ... who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!
Andy Andrews
#53. You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!
Rachel Vincent
#54. One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
Billy Graham
#55. HE LEFT BECAUSE
he cared too much about her
WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
she didn't care enough about him
Jose N. Harris
#56. Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
Jodi Picoult
#57. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
David Cassidy
#58. To say that O began to await her lover the minute he left her is a vast understatement: she was henceforth nothing but vigil and night.
Pauline Reage
#59. The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.
Ann Patchett
#60. When he left her room tonight, she wanted his preference to be only her. His hands would only want her skin. He'd only fit perfectly with Severine.
Calia Read
#61. Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.
Clare Mulley
#62. Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed,
Molly Ivins
#63. I'm trying hard to be strong and put the pieces back together, but Ryan didn't leave me with pieces - he left me with ashes.
E.K. Blair
#64. He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten, Sazed thought, turning to watch her fly. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew. We had the wrong gender all along. THE
Brandon Sanderson
#65. She trusted him.
She had faith in him.
And he left her forever.
Something tells me she's not forgetting that anytime soon.
Lisa Schroeder
#66. Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.
Jane Bowles
#68. when
he left,
he
packed up
all my
poetry
took it
with
him.
Amanda Lovelace
#69. The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.
Tim McGraw
#70. The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
Elliott Abrams
#71. He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed.
Megan Shepherd
#72. Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
Francis George
#73. It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
Holly Near
#74. Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Hans Christian Andersen
#75. I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can't, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than she expected.
A. Petrov
#76. you to stay, you said no, so now you go. Capiche?" "You're such a nerd." He stood and crossed to the door. Before he left, he turned back to her. "April. This day has been hell. I'm happy you were around to make it better.
Mallory Crowe
#77. He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.
Chris Offutt
#78. Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.
Ella March Chase
#79. He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will
By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity;
John Milton
#80. Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
Nicki Minaj
#81. This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#84. Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.
Pierce Brosnan
#85. My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
Marco Rubio
#86. The family story tells, and it was told true,
of my great-grandfather who begat eight
genius children and bought twelve almost new
grand pianos. He left a considerable estate
when he died.
Anne Sexton
#87. I noticed you tore down Donovan's house."
He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
Darynda Jones
#88. One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.
Travis J. Dahnke
#89. At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next "cross the herring pond".' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times.
Evelyn Waugh
#90. God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.
James Targett
#91. Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
Brian Andreas
#92. I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.
Ron Jaworski
#93. To think that he left me because he met the one." "Why does that make you feel better?" I cannot possibly conceive of how that could make her feel better. "Because if I'm not his soul mate, then that means he's not mine. There's someone else out there for me. If he found his, maybe I'll find my own.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#94. It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
Margaret Mead
#95. I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
Bernie Mac
#96. I told Bryce if he left without me, I'd turn his pecker into a snail." She arched an eyebrow at Ronan. "Do you have any objection to my riding along?"
His hand went to his crotch. "No, ma'am, none at all.
Vonnie Davis
#97. A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says In a Relationship!
Jimmy Fallon
#98. Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#99. As he left, he saw the streets were just as deserted and quiet as before, but now he knew it was an illusion. There were ninjas, darker than a starless night, watching their territory and his every move from the rooftops high above.
Anam Iqbal
#100. He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.
Julie Berry
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