Leave People Alone Quotes

#1. We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy.

Tina Fey

#2. Why do you need everyone married?" Christopher has said to him angrily, when Henry has asked about his son's life. "Why can't you just leave people alone?"
He doesn't want people alone.

Elizabeth Strout

#3. I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.

Michael Ventura

#5. I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

Leslie Nielsen

#6. Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

Bill O'Reilly

#7. Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

David Karp

#9. You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

Jimmy Durante

#11. I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself," you threatened.
"We're not going to leave you alone," I said.
But we had to, eventually.
After all, people are always separable.

David Levithan

#12. 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

#13. When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

Vikram Chandra

#14. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone. People

Fredrik Backman

#15. For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Itzhak Perlman

#16. 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

#17. The myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

Arnold Beichman

#18. In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

Alice Walker

#19. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#20. I wish people would just leave us alone," I said. "You remember when it was just the two of us in a big dark cave? Who knew that would be the most uncomplicated time of our lives?

Jeaniene Frost

#21. People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Ray Bradbury

#22. I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

Bill Hicks

#23. If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

David Levithan

#24. I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

Madeleine Stowe

#25. Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse

Abayasinha

#26. Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

Beverly Engel

#27. My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Jim Carrey

#28. If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

Rob Zombie

#29. Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

D.H. Lawrence

#30. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Chuck Klosterman

#31. We see this a lot, people desperate to keep talking because when they stop we will leave and they will be left alone with what has happened.

Tana French

#32. People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Vaslav Nijinsky

#33. Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!

Frank Herbert

#34. And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Erika Slezak

#35. The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

Daniel Radcliffe

#36. 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

#37. If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.

Ernesto Sirolli

#38. People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

#39. Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us. Our

Teresa Of Avila

#40. Hire as few of the best people available, pay them well, give them equity and autonomy in an ethical company and leave them alone.

Philip Beuth

#41. Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

Lars Mikkelsen

#42. If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.

Brock Clarke

#43. You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

Greg Proops

#44. I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

Rand Paul

#45. People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

Karl Pilkington

#46. I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

Clint Eastwood

#47. I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Twyla Tharp

#48. It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

Bernhard Schlink

#49. For the past few weeks I have been laboring under the assumption that if people thought I was dead, they would stop annoying me and leave me alone.
I didn't respond right away. I examined his statement from every angle, and while I admired the logic, the cockeyed optimism left me cold.

Gary Reilly

#50. I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.

Andre Leon Talley

#51. He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

Ernest Hemingway,

#52. The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed their pride. Leave 'em alone or hang 'em, in my opinion. Or better still, pack them off to the Americas, and let them starve.

Iain Pears

#53. The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage

#54. There are some people that you cannot change, you must either deal with them or leave them alone.

Cynthia Patterson

#55. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Doris Lessing

#56. Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

David Brooks

#57. I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

Yvon Chouinard

#58. I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

Bill Watterson

#59. You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

Pat Derby

#60. I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

Mark Wahlberg

#61. Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#62. Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

Thomas Sowell

#63. If you sought to leave the world, don't go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too.

M.F. Moonzajer

#64. When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Elizabeth Taylor

#65. The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.

Nathaniel Branden

#66. The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.

Faraaz Kazi

#67. I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.

Kobe Bryant

#68. As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.

Jack Kerouac

#69. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charlie Chaplin

#70. Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#71. I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

William Faulkner

#72. Life could be wonder full
if people would leave you alone ...

Charlie Chaplin

#73. My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Ruth Reichl

#74. Animals are not like people. If you leave them alone, they won't hurt you. But people will, even if you've done no wrong.

Vaddey Ratner

#75. People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Eric Hoffer

#76. What did you expect? Tsukuru asked himself. A basically empty vessel has become empty once again. Who can you complain to about that? People come to him, discover how empty he is, and leave. What's left is an empty, perhaps even emptier, Tsukuru Tazaki, all alone. Isn't that all there is to it?

Haruki Murakami

#77. No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Lee Child

#78. I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

Lyn Nofziger

#79. At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

Jeremy Paxman

#80. If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

Grover Norquist

#81. I like to think of my people as mute optimists - leave the elephant alone and, eventually, perhaps with the help of a couple mimosas, he will disappear from the room on his own accord.

Julie Buxbaum

#82. Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself - so long as other people leave him alone.]

Arthur Schopenhauer

#83. It wasn't human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn't need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken

Tom Upton

#84. Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.

M.C. Beaton

#85. I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.

William Faulkner

#86. When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Amiri Baraka