Leaving And Staying Quotes

#1. The thought of you leaving and staying away made me want to drop to my knees," he said. "How's that for someone who doesn't care? It's been three days, twelve hours, and six minutes without you.

Jill Shalvis

#2. The goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

Terra Elan McVoy

#3. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Ben Casnocha

#4. By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?

Anna Lyndsey

#5. So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Ellen DeGeneres

#6. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

Prince

#8. The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Conor McPherson

#9. The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

Tina Sloan

#10. Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

Catherine Watson

#11. The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.

Chris Geiger

#12. Tell me to leave," he said roughly.
"No," I whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to his jawline.
"Then I'm staying," and his lips consumed mine.

Alexa Rae

#13. For the first time, I understood the difference between leaving and not staying. It was the difference between a snarl and a smile.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#14. If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.

Nina Hartley

#16. How many abused souls - dogs and humans alike - have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?

Ted Kerasote

#17. The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

Ryan Holiday

#18. ** The fall semester will offer such classes as Learning When to Shut Up, Asking for Directions, Chick Flicks 101 and The Art of Loading the Dishwasher (Lab Fee Extra)

K. Larsen

#19. They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,

Richard Russo

#20. I am happy! I'm leaving on a trip and my wife is staying in Bulgaria.

Ivan Slavkov

#21. Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.

Lisa Renee Jones

#22. If you think big, then it's going to be big.

Emeril Lagasse

#23. I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It's staying out of the rat race that's tricky.

Fennel Hudson

#25. Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

Margaret Catley-Carlson