#leavin

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#leaving-home #sad

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#being #big #big thing #historic #i

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#love #pain #death

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. ↗

— Peter Bart

#ceo #disney #down #eisner #entertainment

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#clock #day #done #half #his

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father. ↗

— Martha N. Beck

#controversial #faith #leaving #leaving-the-saints #mormonism

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. ↗

— John Irving

#final #leaving #regret #regret