#leaving

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#being #big #day #decision-making #excuses

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#came #certain #eagerly #forward #free

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#community #education #found #improving #leaving

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. ↗

— Irving Howe

#behind #engaging #imagination #leaving #reality

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#could #ended #excellent #figured #force

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#day #end #end of the day #get #great

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#autonomy #been #comfortable #comforting #different

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#fall #fear #freed #hath #himself

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#away #ball #conflicts #content #farther

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dream #even #forward #interesting #leave