Leave Them Alone Quotes

#1. I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Elayne Boosler

#2. 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

#3. I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?

Teri Terry

#4. The questions are the danger.
Leave them alone and they sleep.
Ask them, awake them, and more than you
know will begin to rise.

Jonathan Carroll

#5. 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

#6. But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Bulent Ecevit

#7. 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

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

Cynthia Patterson

#9. You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

Tarsem Singh

#10. One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Robert Menzies

#11. The best thing you can do about the wild horses is to leave them alone! Leave the wild life alone, then you will be the best protector!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

Frans De Waal

#20. You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

John Stossel

#21. the only thing necessary to trigger tribal behaviour in humans is the creation of two completely arbitrary groups. Leave them alone in a room and watch it all begin:

Will Storr

#22. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Ayn Rand

#23. The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

Terry Crews

#24. It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but its too bad anyways.

J.D. Salinger

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

Michael Ventura

#26. Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?

Michelle Sagara West

#27. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

J.D. Salinger

#28. sometimes, you like someone enough to leave them alone.

M.J. Fields

#29. 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

#30. The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone
they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

Edward Abbey

#31. It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Peter Morgan

#32. Sometimes the best way to really love someone is to leave them alone.

Art Hochberg

#33. 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

#34. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.

Sanchita Pandey

#35. A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness

Ottessa Moshfegh

#36. There are some beliefs and places in this city that are incomprehensible to some-hell-to most, and it's best to leave them alone.

Sandy DeLuca

#37. Stalking's when you follow the person and won't leave them alone. Waiting is different. It's a form of tribute, like a vigil, and fate rewards it.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#38. but with their enemies either dead, jailed, or in a perpetual state of being frozen, danger had decided to leave them alone.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#39. 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

#40. [T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. ... If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

Steve Hagen

#41. 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

#42. You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Marcus Aurelius

#43. Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

Henry Rollins

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

Ernesto Sirolli

#45. Temptations are like dirty dishes. There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up. And there are some who must do them right away.

Daniel Handler

#46. The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

Jack Hannah

#47. But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Daniel Greenberg

#48. Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

J.C. Ryle

#49. Men love independent women because they leave them alone. They love chasing women who are busy. It gives them a thrill, as big as a touchdown or a home run.

Ellen Fein

#50. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

Ann Patchett

#51. My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

Rob Paulsen

#52. Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

Michael J. Bassett

#53. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca The Younger

#54. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#55. We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel De Montaigne

#56. Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

Deepa Mehta

#57. She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.

Roman Payne

#58. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

Thornton Wilder

#59. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.

David Walker

#60. But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

Claire Legrand

#61. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

Brother Lawrence

#62. So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one house rule of "No Spill Blood" quickly found themselves leaving in pieces.' (Gallagher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Junior Kimbrough

#64. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#65. I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service

Richard Harris

#66. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

#67. She wondered briefly if perhaps she could leave her broken heart here in the cemetery and just take the rest of her home.

Jen Meyers

#68. It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.

Peter Facinelli

#69. Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade

Gerard Way

#70. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.

Art Hochberg

#71. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Charlie Munger

#72. I imagine her rolling onto her back, welcoming me to create secrets with her that'll never leave this room.

Colleen Hoover

#73. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

Nora Roberts

#74. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.

Jon Gordon

#75. The best we can do is, treat people with sincere respect. Staying is their choice. If they want to leave, they've every right to.

Sarvesh Jain

#76. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

Robert Jordan

#77. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

Dustin Hoffman

#78. You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Cody Lundin

#79. Leaving senior year like:
its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.

John Green

#80. Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#81. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

#82. Don't leave the dream, lead your dreams!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#83. When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alex Van Halen

#84. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#85. Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Mike Gayle

#86. Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.

Jodi Picoult

#87. The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.

Sue Monk Kidd

#88. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song

Jon Bon Jovi

#89. And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

Cynthia Kadohata

#90. To leave a message is another image.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 28, 2016
Amen
God

Petra Hermans

#91. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#92. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day

Frank McCourt

#93. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

#94. So I leave you here and let those cold euphoric drops of water drip and seep into your skull.

Justin Bienvenue

#95. We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Blaise Pascal

#96. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Mary E. Pearson

#97. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#98. The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

Alison Krauss

#99. On the road of life ... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are ... Keep walking.

Denise Linn

#100. She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty

Coco J. Ginger