Staying Or Leaving Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Ivan Slavkov

#5. 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

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

Richard Russo

#7. 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

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

Ted Kerasote

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

Shannon L. Alder

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Chris Geiger

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. 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