#leaves

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#believe #country #everybody #fast #i

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#leaves #next #person #pulled #similar

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behind #case #does #field #finished

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. ↗

— Thomas More

#friends #gave #leaves #love #roses

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doing #exercise #free #get #happen

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

Religion leaves no room for human complexity. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#human #leaves #religion #room

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ↗

— Paul Valery

#gone #great #great man #leaves #loss

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#done #drink #get #getting #go