#leaving

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

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#house #i #i love #leaving #love

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. ↗

— John Pople

#better #chemistry #clearly #decision #england

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#bonds #certain #him #i #know

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#simone-elkeles #dreams

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#better-go #just #leaving #words #beauty

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

— Ally Carter

#leaving #change

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

— Kelly Braffet

#humor #last-seen-leaving #death

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ↗