Take Leave Quotes

#1. When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Annie Dillard

#2. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot

#3. At twelve o'clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.

Jacob Grimm

#4. Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

Mary Borden

#5. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#6. The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden,
Without me, will still bear flowers.

Su Ting

#7. Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

William Shakespeare

#8. Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

Horace

#9. I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

Zhuangzi

#10. As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Arthur F. Burns

#11. Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Peter Medawar

#12. At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses.

Shelly Thacker

#13. And even now I wonder if creation is both too beautiful and too horrible for a handful of perceptive souls, and if the realisation of this opposing duality can offer them few options but to take leave of their own accord.

Mitch Cullin

#14. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

Milan Kundera

#15. Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Colin Powell

#16. Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

Greg Behrendt

#17. There are two men in me
one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second ... the second?

Mikhail Lermontov

#18. We all take leave of our senses, from time to time ...

Bryan A. Garner

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Everything is about them now." "One day they will be grown and leave home and you will just be a source of embarrassment or exasperation for them and they won't take your phone calls or won't call you for weeks,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.

Chris Matakas

#24. Now that's a sight for sore eyes, Sebastian. Maybe I should just leave you here: the hotel maids might appreciate that. Or, better still, maybe I'll take a photograph of you on my phone. Dont worry, I wont post it on the internet, it'll just be my screen saver.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#25. but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

Deborah Ellis

#26. She was making a conscious effort to take with her all the best things about the world she wanted to leave, just in case memories could be car-ried in one's pockets and used to plot out the course of whatever it was that came next

Jodi Picoult

#27. Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

Harold S. Kushner

#28. Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck

#29. I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

Becki Newton

#30. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.

Lee Child

#31. I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion

Ziggy Marley

#32. Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Mignon McLaughlin

#33. When Derek hesitated, Chloe said, "If you leave, either I go with you and take the same risk or stay here, with strangers. Without you."
He scowled at her.
"Yes, it's a low blow," she said. "But I'll use whatever works right now."

Kelley Armstrong

#34. 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

#35. As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#36. Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.

Giorgos Seferis

#37. Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.

Eddie Redmayne

#38. I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

Garry Trudeau

#39. Prince,' he could, at this point, take or leave.
The rest of his life with Jasmine, however... that was worth everything.

Liz Braswell

#40. It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Mother Angelica

#41. Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

Erich Fromm

#42. You take the bad with the good, Rise up through it. Live in the mist of it. It's the bad that lets you know ho good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't any good. There is, and lots of it, too.

Charles Martin

#43. I only know how to be one thing. And that's me. Take it or leave it. I don't really give a shit.

Peter Cimino

#44. 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

#45. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

George Sutherland

#46. There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.

Chip Ingram

#47. I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Maya Angelou

#48. So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#49. Nature, you always think she won't get any better, but she proves you wrong, again and again. She will prove you wrong until you take your leave, and then she will continue to work her charms on the humans who follow.

Nishanth Anchan K.N.

#50. Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go ...
Tahar ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#51. It wasn't okay. I didn't want her to leave. I didn't care if Jesus wanted her or not. She was my mommy. He could take an old mommy. One that didn't have little boys to take care of.

Jamie McGuire

#52. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

Lana Del Rey

#53. Life would take everything from you eventually. So who would be so stupid to leave someone they loved by choice?

Tommy Wallach

#54. Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#55. Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

#56. We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.

Saint John Chrysostom

#57. There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

Mark Lawrence

#58. I can't take the chance that she'll leave, and I feel that this moment is tentative, like a wild bird has just landed on my shoulder.

J. Lincoln Fenn

#59. 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

#60. Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.

Alexander MacLaren

#61. You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Bob Dylan

#62. Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him, and say, "Lord, what will you have me to do?" Leave not your chamber this morning, without enquiring of the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#63. You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.

Robert Jordan

#64. In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

Reba Linker

#65. You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out.

Esther Hicks

#66. 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

Sampha

#67. Life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. if you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already

James Frey

#68. Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

Sarah Dessen

#69. If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Don Bluth

#70. And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Bruce Nauman

#71. I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?"
"And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know."
"I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!"
"Or leave you as you are," said Sir Maurice gently.

Georgette Heyer

#72. You can't count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.

Austin Kleon

#73. When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked.

Tom Ford

#74. I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Dorothy Allison

#75. Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

Kahlil Gibran

#76. I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

Cherie Blair

#77. I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

Paul Bettany

#78. Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#79. Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Emily Dickinson

#80. During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Brian Koslow

#81. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.

Gosho Aoyama

#82. PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

#83. When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

Bruce Dickinson

#84. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Elizabeth Edwards

#85. Take the regular wagon track and never leave it.

James Clyman

#86. Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.

William Eggleston

#87. Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.

Rumi

#88. God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

John Piper

#89. I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

Julia Jones

#90. We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

William Odom

#91. The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#92. The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

Betty White

#93. It doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles alway take their place.

Chris Colfer

#94. The things you can take with you: Love, Trust, Respect, Joy,.
The things you leave behind: Everything else.

Robert Charles Waldron

#95. For a time I let my mouth hang open, so that my excitement might take opportunity and leave.

Franz Kafka

#96. I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!

Stephen Richards

#97. If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#98. I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

Amanda Bynes

#99. Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

Alfred P. Sloan

#100. Come back to me, to my bed. Where we can make love. Every single night. For as long as we both shall live. That's the vow you made. Remember? Well, it's time to prove you meant it. Come back and stay. Forever. That's my offer. Take it or leave it.

Magda Alexander