Top 100 Leave It Quotes
#1. Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss Jami
#2. Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.
Don Henley
#3. D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
Bryce Harper
#4. We tell each other stories to help each other live. That's why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That's why I went to poetry in the first place, that's why I stay with it, that's why I'll never leave it.
Marie Howe
#5. Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
W. H. Auden
#7. We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
Arthur C. Clarke
#9. I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.
Tim Burton
#10. Look at that! Life's more science-fictiony by the day. It's not just that you get old and your kids leave; it's that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most comfy in.
David Mitchell
#11. 'Lost' was filmed in Hawaii, so we stayed there and loved it, so we thought, 'Why would we leave?' It is a bit like growing up in a bubble, but I don't think that's a bad thing, as you will eventually get out and see the real world.
Henry Ian Cusick
#12. The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.
Brigham Young Jr.
#13. The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.
John Burnside
#14. I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let's leave it at that.
Philip Roth
#16. Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward
Kaye Dacus
#17. I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Kevin Spacey
#20. Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
Darren Shan
#21. I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A
DJ Spooky
#22. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
#23. The only way I could get my old CD into stores is if I took one in and leave it. "Sir, you forgot this." "No, I did not. That is for sale. Please alphabetize it."
Mitch Hedberg
#24. Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
Maria Montessori
#25. Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want
Tucker Max
#26. I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
Harry Shearer
#27. Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.
Renee Ahdieh
#28. I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
Anthony Horowitz
#29. In my pictures, you never know, that's the mystery. It's just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It's fashion in disguise.
Deborah Turbeville
#30. My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a lot of people leave. It's a lot of long hours, shift work. Even my Dad, who's a dentist worked hard, because that's what people do up there.
Aaron Lines
#31. Seen from across the street, he was like someone to whom the world had long since given notice to quit but who was compelled to stay in it, no longer belonging to it, but unable to leave it.
Thomas Bernhard
#32. I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. I came into this world covered in someone else's blood and screaming. I'm not afraid to leave it the same way.
Darynda Jones
#34. Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
Terence McKenna
#35. I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Chris Christie
#36. Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.
Dylan Moran
#37. Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
Russell Brand
#38. Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the road stretched before us and the opportunities that await. Why not, indeed?
Mike Dellosso
#39. When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#40. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
Keri Hilson
#41. I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there."
"You listening to my head, kiddo?"
Her mouth twitched. "Only when I want to hear the roar of the ocean.
Jim Butcher
#42. The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#43. We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.
Tony Campolo
#44. I am not supporting Donald Trump. I think he does this country such a disservice. And I'm gonna leave it there.
Nia Long
#45. I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#46. I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with each other. You have to leave it to the writers to know what makes great television.
Candice Patton
#47. I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.
Melina Marchetta
#48. I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.
Michael Azerrad
#49. What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say is on solid, it's rare to not be on solid.
Deyth Banger
#51. I've always been this way. This is who I am. Take it or leave it. You'll either hate me or you'll love me. I have a strong personality which isn't necessarily good or bad. I really don't mind what people in Oklahoma who I don't know think of me. I really only care about the people in my life.
Heidi Montag
#52. In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
Horace
#53. No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.
Judy LaMarsh
#56. We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#57. It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind - but it had hurt his heart.
Stephen King
#58. But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
Alice Hoffman
#59. The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.
Francois Hollande
#60. Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
Ronald Reagan
#62. Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.
Andy Cohen
#63. Go straight to God, and dump it right at His feet. You go down with it if you have to. Then leave it there and go on and do what you know is right now. That other is done. It doesn't make you who you are. It just teaches you who to be.
Nancy Rue
#64. Leave it alone, I'm handling this," Barrons told Ryodan.
"I suggest you do a better job."
"And I suggest you go fuck yourself.
Karen Marie Moning
#65. The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
Dennis Weaver
#66. Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
Jim Rohn
#67. Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
Sarah Orne Jewett
#69. It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
Christian Scott
#70. There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.
John Lennon
#71. If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.
Oleta Adams
#72. Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin
Bill Watterson
#73. I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.
Jonathan Groff
#74. Love is my religion.
Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.
Ziggy Marley
#75. Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
Barbara Corcoran
#76. I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
Mark Webber
#77. I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?
(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later)
Deyth Banger
#78. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.
Esai Morales
#81. Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
Robert Blake
#82. We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
Jim Lovell
#83. If only I could paint a canvas I would leave it white.
Amit Abraham
#84. Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
Dean Kamen
#85. I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
Susanna Clarke
#86. I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
#87. Each day, the world is made fresh again, holy, and she takes it in, in all its raw intensity, like a young child. She feels something bloom in her chest - joy or grief, eventually they are inseparable. The world is so acutely beautiful, for all its horrors, that she will be sorry to leave it.
Debra Dean
#88. The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#89. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
Bill Watterson
#90. You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.
DJ Spooky
#91. The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
John Lancaster Spalding
#92. There is a lot you don't know about me - a lot. I have definitely lived, that's for sure. I will just leave it at that.
Neon Hitch
#93. If there's an aspect of your life that's making you unhappy and you can escape from it, why wait? Too many people stick around and try to improve things, which often means slogging your guts out to compensate for the deficiencies of others. Personally, I'm a fan of the discard: leave it; move on.
Sophie Hannah
#94. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret
#95. I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
Kiefer Sutherland
#96. If only your life were a costume, and you could just take it off when you wanted to, leave it hanging on a hook, and walk away.
Brad Barkley
#97. Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.
Deyth Banger
#98. Whatever you do, do not finish the hard work of developing your gifts only to leave it unexpressed.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#99. I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#100. Zulu, we do this quick and easy," Ray said. "No ripping his chest apart, taking out his heart, and painting his blood across the pavement."
"Come on. I did that once, and you still won't leave it alone." I shrugged my shoulders and leaned back in the van's backseat.
Kenya Wright