Top 100 Leave Them Quotes
#1. I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.
Travis Barker
#2. I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.
Edwidge Danticat
#3. Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.
Nick Hornby
#4. If you see those pretty things
that nature likes to show
Remember all those seals that sing
And leave them there to grow.
Stephen Cosgrove
#5. Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.
Michael Ventura
#6. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told. The
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#7. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself - and shall have until I leave them.
Beryl Markham
#8. 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
#9. Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes
#11. If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
Nigel Lawson
#12. I was their leader. I would never leave them, not even in the time of death.
Shannon A. Thompson
#13. He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we
Rhys Bowen
#14. 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
#15. Annalise loves to take things out of wherever they've been put away and leave them in little mounds all over the house. Her father, my uncle Eric, says she is chaos incarnate, but actually she's very organized. She knows exactly where everything is.
Ellen Steiber
#16. It's important that he accepts my love for Jeb. I'll have to tell Jeb the same thing about Morpheus before I'm gone. I will not leave them with lies hanging between us. "I love you both."
A.G. Howard
#17. sometimes, you like someone enough to leave them alone.
M.J. Fields
#18. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.
Melissa Foster
#19. If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
#20. 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
#21. Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
Lloyd Cutler
#22. We fought about it endlessly. He even went as far as to set up meetings with prominent girls in our social circle, attempting to make me a one woman man with a purposeful relationship. When I would bed these girls and leave them, Grandfather finally gave up.
Sadie Grubor
#23. Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.
Laurence Kotlikoff
#24. Well, you devious little woman you. Do you know what I do to wily women?
"You ... leave them panting and oneless after a world-class orgasm?" she guessed.
"Why yes. Yes, ma'am, I do." Picking her up, I carried her back to my room and kicked the door shut behind me.
Linda Kage
#25. 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
#26. I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
Michael Bloomberg
#27. If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Saint John Chrysostom
#28. 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
#29. IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
Thomas A. Edison
#30. The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.
Elizabeth Peters
#31. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
Helen Hollick
#32. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
Josiah Stamp
#33. If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.
Barry White
#34. Leave them be. It's about time the two of them worked things out, don't you think?"
"Long past time, but you know TJ. I was hoping to make it through the evening without having to call in the swat team.
Mackenzie Crowne
#35. She said if anyone ever double-crosses you, especially if it's a friend, you have every right to stomp their guts and leave them with little breath.
Kimberly Afe
#36. Someday, our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?
Barack Obama
#37. Sometimes the best way to really love someone is to leave them alone.
Art Hochberg
#38. Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Yeah, I hook up with older guys. And then I leave them, before they can leave me.
Leah Raeder
#43. When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
Benjamin Carson
#44. On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak of them imperfectly is to rob the of something vital, though to leave them intact, inside, is to leave no space for anything else in your life.
Kamila Shamsie
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#48. You are always someone's example. Someone is always trying to follow in your footsteps. What will you leave them that is behind you?
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#49. 'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Dick Morris
#50. Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
Walter Kirn
#51. If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
George Soros
#52. All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.
John Irving
#53. People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
William Hazlitt
#54. There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
Lord Acton
#55. I offer a duo of free-range
monosyllabics: one being "wow" and the other being
"cool," often said in sequence, spoken without drawl.
Take them, leave them, or show me to the Dewer's--
Kristen Henderson
#56. 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
#57. Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
Ezra Taft Benson
#58. All around him during the war, Ciro saw men lie, engage in acts of cowardice, create feeble attachments to women, only to leave them - men acting in pursuit of their own comforts, men behaving without grace. And
Adriana Trigiani
#59. 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
#60. I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.
Leslie Mann
#61. Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
Spurgeon, Charles H.
#62. 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
#63. One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
Deborah Moggach
#64. How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#65. Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
Lee Daniels
#66. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
D. Love
#67. [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
#68. 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
#69. Our bodies were trash.
We leave them on the shore.
Anne Sexton
#70. I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.
Alan Smith
#71. Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.
Richelle Mead
#73. I know only one thing. One doesn't abandon family. One doesn't leave them, even in the name of love.
Alyson Richman
#74. 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
#75. I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.
Emma Frances Dawson
#76. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
Karen Blixen
#77. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Neil Gaiman
#78. I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy
Daymond John
#79. Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
David Mixner
#80. She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.
William Gibson
#81. 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
#82. One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
Mignon McLaughlin
#83. They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.
S.J. Kincaid
#84. Bosoms," she announces, with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."
"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?
Kathryn Stockett
#85. I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.
Bruce McCulloch
#86. How to get and keep men interested in you (A Guide for the Modern Woman): Put them in the "friend" or "fuck" zone. Leave them there.
Alice Walsh
#87. I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.
Rain
#88. 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
#90. 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
#91. You think you can get rid of things, and people too
leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.
Margaret Atwood
#92. 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
#93. Many praise and bless Jesus as long as they receive some consolation from Him, but if He hide Himself and leave them for a little while, they fall either into complaining or into excessive dejection.
San Juan De La Cruz
#94. I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#95. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.
Jack Kornfield
#96. It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"
Robbie Amell
#97. He could forget all these people, just like that, become fond again of strangers and leave them too.
John Gardner
#98. Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together
Alex Haditaghi
#100. 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
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