#leavin

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie? ↗

— Kelly Braffet

#humor #last-seen-leaving #death

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? ↗

— Regina Spektor

#accomplish #been #distance #dust #else

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#afghanistan #begin #behind #especially #fooling

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#leave #leaving #time #change

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it. ↗

— Ally Carter

#leaving #change

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago. ↗

— Bill Lipinski

#chicago #i #leaving #more #spend

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#behind #crawl #edifice #his #i

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. ↗

— James Merrill

#better #cup #free #gasoline #get

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving. ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#full #got #house #i #leaving