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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Mother Teresa

Right now folks are having difficulty leaving the (flooded) area.

Wilbur Wright

The fuel is coming in but it is leaving the service stations quicker than we can get it in.

Colin Mcclelland

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Jean Paul Richter

We help in any way we can without leaving South Carolina in jeopardy.

Joe Farmer

Customers who try to grab the ticket as they drive through the lane without coming to a stop may only get half a ticket, leaving the other half jammed in the dispenser.

Patrick Noonan

People can't keep leaving for Toronto. We need to help ourselves out first.

Ryan Tobin

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.

Lauren Emerson

It's like having great in-laws staying with you. You're sad they're leaving, but there's a time for them to go. And they're leaving a pot of jam for you.

Irv Lippman

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Jean Kerr

Our house is damaged, but we could still stay here. But we're leaving. I can't take it anymore.

Allen Miller

What I heard when we started this war was we'd be out in 10 years, ... That's the timetable I think we should keep. I think everyone should know that in six years we are leaving.

Gene Taylor

I told him, the kids and I are leaving, ... And I wanted him to come, and he said he was going to stay.

Diane Johnson

At least they are leaving some unspoiled areas. They are trying to compromise and give everybody what they want, which is a very difficult thing to do.

Ken Harris

We will continue to do that. There is a great deal of upside potential in leaving the company as is.

Don Olsen

Once the ball hits your hands, the next thing should be the ball leaving your hands.

David Jackson

Debts remain while no new investments are made, leaving the company and its brand to go bad.

Kazuhiko Toyama

We have had enough. If all our demands are not met, we're not leaving New Delhi.

Champa Devi Shukla

The decision about my team has been made, as I don't believe in leaving things to the last minute.

Jeremy Bates

The kids were leaving flowers and everything all over the sidewalk, and nobody could get through, and they were also leaving unopened beer bottles.

Scott Ishikawa

I told (Mobley), 'We're leaving at halftime if Kentucky is losing. Kentucky does better when I'm at a bar drinking.

Mike Vance

We are leaving with our heads high.

Dan Williams

We can't do anything about that. They aren't leaving because of the environment or there's anything wrong with the community.

Jennifer Daly

We have a lot of talent and we need to bring it out this year because a lot of seniors are leaving.

Melissa Miller

With your video in the Internet Archive, you feel that you're leaving something for the future.

Graham Walker

I cannot make the presumption he is leaving.

Steve Borthwick

We've never been united like that, all of us Latinos. We are here and not leaving, and we need to let people know that.

Jose Torres

You can make arguments in either direction. But right now, I'd be comfortable with just leaving it the same.

Rich Sanders

Everyone's scared, that's why we're all leaving.

Maria Stephens

Some people are leaving, and I might be one of them, ... I can't afford a hefty hike in rent.

Mark Thatcher

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

We might find that someone is habitually leaving their lights on, and we might leave them a little note telling them to be energy aware.

Pat Teeters

The ones that are left are the die-hards, ... These are people who are more scared of leaving than staying.

Andy Jones

We use [the non-compete] if we feel the people [leaving] have too much information.

Martin Tremblay

For us, it's like you just built a new house, and you're leaving a house that never quite fit. And we're taking our whole family with us.

Principal Mary Mcconnell

We're leaving early because Johnny Bench just broke our spirits.

Dennis White

I never had any intention of leaving the cowboy lifestyle. Ranching is who I am.

Derrick Glover

He just told me (before leaving), 'Just run the team, make stuff easy, and let's get this victory.

Marcus Banks

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Charles Stewart Parnell

There's that feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving.

Led Zeppelin

What do you gain by leaving someone in a very sensitive position for so many years?

Richard Shelby

Instead of people going and leaving town, (now) people stick around.

Scott Mason

They were leaving Las Vegas to flee to a country with a 'non-extradition' policy.

Robert Daskas

I said, 'We're leaving,' and she didn't say too much.

Anne Ward

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

Irving Howe

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Julie Morgenstern

The hardest thing was leaving our two dogs.

Cathey Lewis

The batch of birds exported to Britain and other countries had been tested before leaving the country and did not have the H5N1 virus.

Watson Sung

That part is being completely ignored and really leaving us completely vulnerable to any sort of violent intruder in the cabin of the aircraft.

Patricia Friend

Leaving the past behind us and building a new future together.

John Hume

It's a trend. A lot more people are leaving than coming in.

Larry O'toole

I wonder if we should be leaving driver qualification to train operators.

Kazuo Kitagawa

He's a player who eliminates his rivals ... leaving them without any hope of recovery.

Jorge Valdano

You basically had a board that backed Purcell, and Purcell has gone, so you would expect over time the guys who were his supporters to slowly be leaving or forced out.

Anton Schutz

You've got to anticipate people leaving because it is very shortsighted if you only think about new people coming in.

Judith Wegner

I resign in Florida. [The comment scared the interviewer and fellow band members into thinking he was leaving the group.]

Nick Carter

The poor chance of finding jobs at home is the main reason they're leaving.

Klaus Bade

I felt great. I knew I was leaving and I wanted to leave on a good note. Hopefully I'll be back to finish this.

Drew Macintyre

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Gigi Brown

He is a great guy, very talented. We will be throwing the biggest leaving party ever for him in March.

Stephen Colvin

I'm not leaving the field but I've learned that in life you either diminish or you grow and I chose to grow. I really believe voters will choose a candidate that represents competency, character and commitment and this shows commitment.

Brian O'donnell

I've told everyone at work if I ever feel that way again, I'm leaving — no questions.

Jerri Duncan

We are trying to capture the people who are leaving town for their cancer care.

Duane Richey

I don't have any intentions of leaving and it's just good now the board have opened up negotiations.

Graham Murray

We are leaving it until the last possible minute to enter.

Peggy Liddick

We've truly enjoyed providing service to our friends and neighbors, and we're leaving them in capable hands.

Tom Pierce

You don't stick cameras in people's faces. You don't block them from leaving the entrance. You don't jump in their way just because they are letting someone off.

Tim Michener

In the bullpen, his command was as good as anybody we have. Leaving the bullpen, I thought he was going to have a fantastic game.

Darren Balsley

The one leaving gets paid less than the one coming in the door.

Donna Johnson

I called it then, but our guys didn't get the signal. They were leaving both of our stingers uncovered and it was there, but we didn't see it.

Jim Leavitt

I hope the way Danny played will put an end to talk about him leaving. I don't want him to.

Ian Millward

That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of events and in 10 years someone else will be doing what you're doing at what are you leaving behind for them.

Rick Say

I am leaving to enjoy retirement like others my age, but am confident I will be leaving ATA in good hands.

George Mikelsons

The cavities and shock will dissipate, leaving behind very little trace of their existence.

Paul Nulsen

I knew if I had a good season I'd probably think about leaving. There wasn't anything holding me back, but I knew if they told me I'd get a first-round grade I was going to leave.

Vernon Davis

All we're doing is leaving ourselves open to options that we can use as scenarios.

Cindy Crowe

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lyn Yutang

Now I never dream of leaving here. Hurricane Katrina wasn't a good thing, but maybe it was God's way of putting us in a better place.

Charliene Guidry

It's not up to me. I'm leaving it up to them. I did everything I could do with the (playing) time I was given. Hopefully I made a good impression on them, but it's a business, and they have to do what they have to do, and I need to do what I need to do.

Anthony Carter

If the Bills were ever in danger of leaving the community, I might inquire as to how I could help (keep them in Buffalo). But would I buy the team? I don't know.

Tom Golisano

They were leaving me open on the wing. I took advantage of those opportunities.

Jessie Boylan

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

Ted Morgan

(O'Brien) said that he can't leave the kids. He doesn't feel right leaving them, which I can appreciate.

Andy Fila

Locking your car, that's free. Not leaving the car running with the keys in it, that's priceless.

Carol Walker

Given that they haven't said off the record or on the record that they are going to clarify this, leaving it unclear will and already has had a chilling effect on employees' interactions with the public.

Chris Knight

We don't want anybody getting a DWI leaving out of here. Anybody who gets a DWI coming out of here is an idiot. We try to be very careful, and we try to protect our members and the general public.

Les Dasch

The thought of leaving Horicon or Dodge County probably didn't occur to him until the state mentioned it.

Joseph Moore

It's a lot different. You're leaving home and leaving everything behind. You got a job to look forward to and you have to get your mind set right.

Shannon Johnson

Yo... we leaving now! I can't believe this bullsh*t, ... Give [your co-worker] the mic and get your sh*t! We're leaving now!

Kevin Hunter

Sometimes I have trouble leaving the game on the field and begin over-analyzing instead of just playing. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun.

Justin Morneau

We run the risk of (wealthy residents) leaving the state or changing their behavior to avoid this tax.

Jon Coupal

The train is leaving the station and we need to be on that train.

Gerald E. Connolly

...Even though it will cost more, I support leaving a school in each village and dealing with the dollar issues.

Calvin Jones

I always thought I was the one that would be leaving.

Jose Molina

It was weird leaving the city. Some people were out mowing their lawns.

Amyrose Marr

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Anne Paulk

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

Susan Hill

Jamie: It's my favorite time of day, driving you. Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It is the saddest part of my day, leaving you.

Love Actually

Sometimes young families come out here alone and the parents die, leaving the children.

Angie Martinez

Employees who do not contribute enough to receive their employer's full matching contribution are leaving free money on the table.

Lori Lucas

We've been camped out here since 5:00 a.m. Thursday and we're only leaving to take baths in the ocean.

Rodrigo Barduco

Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes in the 1960s and 1970s, and a relative decline since then.

David Hancock

We are leaving behind the old culture of cronyism to put together a plural government that shares a common vision of the future.

Vincente Fox

You want to bet. I want to know who John Doe is, and Richard Roe, or we're leaving. Take your choice.

Hugh Keefe

I tried leaving. He wouldn't let me leave. He threw me down to the ground and started to kick me, and that's when my driver busted through the door.

Chenoa Inman

We were kids all over again after we won that game, but we never thought about the impact we were leaving. We didn't realized what we had accomplished.

Nevil Shed

Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you.

Alex Kapranos

American business is turning its back on the defined benefit pension system. They're basically leaving the employees who built these companies in the dust.

John Hotz

I felt pretty good about leaving Scott in the final inning. He was really battling hard out there. Scott's going to give you everything he's got.

Clay Mccammon

Court is in recess. We are out, we are leaving.

Zacarias Moussaoui

We feel they will be able to get out into the community to find housing. Many of them have already been leaving.

David Wade

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

Dorothy Denning

As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.

Rowan Atkinson

If you want to build the condos, that's fine, but to get rid of a cultural asset makes no sense. Don't destroy these buildings indirectly by leaving only the facades. It's a hypocrisy to say you want to preserve the history to then gut the buildings.

Charles White

It's very hard to hack into a Web site without leaving a footprint behind. Computers provide us with a lot of identification information. They just capture a lot. Whenever you do anything, there is a trail.

Larae Quy

Absolutely not. The only way of leaving is by the slab. You're in the mob for life.

Bruce Mouw

It is disappointing and in such circumstances one is compelled to think about leaving the game altogether.

Shabbir Ahmed

It's a real culture shock. Leaving is not only hard because they would be so isolated from their parents, friends and family, it's also like a foreign country.

Don Kraybill

You're leaving black folks out of the system. Don't think any of you are going to get by St. Peter if you discriminated against me, because you won't. You won't.

Rudy Langford

I feel like I'm leaving a U2 concert.

Tom Heckert

After leaving the lake we hooked up on a few schoolers in the river on crankbaits.

Mike Peterson

We've got a matter of 5 months to bring them all down to Florida, but when they all leave Florida, they're all leaving at the same time. So we're squeezing all those cars in that amount of time, so, it gets hard.

Dana Miller

The energy of the X-ray photons is so great that once absorbed by the molecule they eject an electron from the atom, leaving an ion behind.

Paul Withers

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred.

Gerald Anderson

He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.

Chris Aguila

WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

It's very disappointing to have the class that we have and it's coming down to a coach leaving to break it up. We're all talking. We're all seeing what we're going to do.

Scottie Reynolds

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.

Marguerite Yourcenar

At the beginning, I was getting a little bit panicked because he's definitely our number one (starter). That was as hard as he's been hit by far all year. He was just leaving the ball up. You can't leave the ball up in this league.

Doug Sankey

The baby boomers are going to be leaving the workplace soon, and they are going to take all their knowledge with them. If you ignore that, you're going to make the problem worse than it has to be.

Sandra Timmerman

I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we had to do to save them.

Lucian Mitchell Sr

I didn't think he had much of a chance. His life was leaving his body pretty rapidly.

Brett Bushong

They are being threatened. Their family members are being assassinated or kidnapped and they are leaving out of fear.

Dana Graber

We are very fortunate a lot of our staff are returning. Several others are leaving the jobs they've had in the interim to come back.

Don Woroner

We will be driving three meters forward on the surface of Mars and leaving our lander for good.

Kevin Burke

We have no interest in (leaving). That's one area I can tell you right now that's important all the way up the organization.

Jim Ferraro

The net is closing. Leaving firearms, clothing and cash in the van suggests to me that there are people in the gang who are now making mistakes.

Adrian Leppard

We just played with energy, leaving everything that happened before in the past. Our minds are just all clear, and we're just playing basketball now.

Rod Wilmont

But (Prince) Charles is leaving for India next week so she had to get back.

Giaan Rooney

I love the guy. He's like my father. Him leaving is very devastating. We figured we'd have to work hard to win.

Amber Doran

It came out of nowhere. There was not speculation at all. Then we find out Coach is leaving. It was a tough time for all of us.

Jacob Burtschi

Steps to a new home 'cause I'm not leaving this place. A tornado could come, and I'd still move back here.

Jennifer Orand

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

Patrick Mouratoglou

Our guys literally, as they were leaving, gave those guys a crash course in how to care for penguins and otters, and they did.

Melissa Lee

I probably would rather be known for leaving a major park system in San Antonio.

Phil Hardberger

I hate the fact that it's leaving. I think Jerry says a lot of things that a lot of us guys think about. I live by him.

Luis Diaz

The only reason that we're leaving is to respect the wishes of the family.

Gabriel Pendas

The landscape is what people see first when entering the campus and see last when leaving. The impact of flowers is one of the greatest the University has.

Marshall Goss

He has been the leader, and he has had the focus and everyone rowing the boat in the same direction. To change would be difficult, especially with two board members leaving and half the cabinet retiring.

David Welch

My mom thought I was crazy, leaving a $28-an-hour job [as a mason] to come do something where I didn't even have any clients.

Keith Gilbertson

We're getting them in regularly, but they're leaving quickly.

Brian Lucas

[Her] fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks.. They prod and pinch the air, leaving it bruised and beaten.

Colin Mcdowell

Believe me, I don't think (Allen leaving) is a remote possibility. We're too pleased with the way things are going.

Bill Rowe

Now that Justine's leaving, someone has to fill her spot as the universal swimmer. She's good at everything, so I'm hoping that I will be the one.

Tiffany Hernandez

It's like taking a leap of faith almost, leaving a decent job with decent benefits and doing something you really want to do, ... It's something I'm seriously considering.

Mark Hyman

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving.

David Taras

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Camille Moute

It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen anywhere. The idea of leaving home is universal. It's about the idea of finding home and what is home.

Alan Cooke

Always have someone with you. Never let go of your drink. Always know, if someone's leaving, where they're going and how long they'll be gone.

Amanda Murphy

We didn't see no kids, so evidently, she had been leaving them in the house.

Annette Baker

I don't think anybody's leaving.

Capt. Charles Blackwood

A lot of the fans who have money to go see music will be leaving the city – and without audiences, clubs can't pay musicians, and then nobody gets gigs.

Jon Cleary

He was not comfortable in leaving camp to play. He wanted to make sure that he would be fresh for an entire year.

Terry Ryan

I don't think it's a film about dance, ... I think it's a film about going through your family and leaving your family and the bittersweet element of growing out and growing up and moving on.

Stephen Daldry

That money doesn't only apply to employees who might be leaving. We'll use some of that money to get some employees to help us create value in the future.

John Kanas

There's just too many of them dead. For now we're leaving the dead as they are because our main concern is to rescue survivors, if there are any.

Col. Raul Farnacio

I wasn't leaving, ... If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we had to do to save them.

Lucian

I teased him about leaving too late [that morning] to catch anything.

Ron Grantski

I'm sorry they are leaving, ... I think it's important to have that kind of people-to-people contact.

William Brownfield

It is well-known that Fernando Alonso is leaving the team.

Heikki Kovalainen

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Marty Dickens

That's really leaving us at a disadvantage. We have to change that.

James Lowry

I walk in here this morning, and I'm leaving my family at home, and I'm hoping and praying that I'll be able to walk out of here and not be carried out.

Carla Hubbard

We are leaving with our heads held high. The decision to leave Gaza was made out of strength, and with it comes a hope for a better future.

Dan Halutz

Only one person Saturday had the courage to admit that he was leaving his cat because of bird flu.

Danielle Merle

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Colton Fretter

I don't plan on leaving unless the house disappears. If it becomes a full cellar, I'll build over it. You just take what comes.

Jerry Buckley

We're all brothers and our father is leaving to go somewhere else. There were tears. There were positive things, too, because Lou is leaving us with a lot positive things he's instilled in us since he's been coaching us.

Stan Gaines

We have two great linebackers leaving. Guys are hopefully going to fill their shoes.

Chris Brevi

The hardest part is leaving my family behind for so long.

Mike Gill

I can't say I had any inkling. She's obviously leaving on top. We won at 5 p.m. in January and February.

Chris Pike

They said they have tentative plans for leaving tomorrow (Saturday).

Anita David

That was just awful. Listening to that petition was more important than leaving to go to that press conference.

Rose Ferlita

And now he's leaving.

Steve Price

Then, come to find out, he's going to be leaving -- that's kind of tough, man.

Jonathan Papelbon

I think the chances of [Stern leaving Infinity] have definitely increased.

Kit Spring

We've been seeing some speed and [Haas] is more of an off-speed guy. He began hitting his spots. He was leaving it up early, but he calmed down.

Scott Hudgins

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Harry Browne

But what really took the cake was a kid who was throwing a fit, cussing and everything because the boom-box he looted didn't come with batteries. I can't take it anymore. We're leaving.

Allen Miller

It wasn't my idea to leave Cheshire. I wasn't planning on leaving Cheshire.

Christopher Lambert

I'm not leaving because we're in a bad situation. I'm leaving even sadder. It's not easy to leave the most prestigious club in the world.

Arrigo Sacchi

It is never easy leaving Liverpool but if you are going to a big club that helps - and Aston Villa is a big club.

Milan Baros

It feels awesome. Our team's leaving a mark on River Dell. We'll be remembered for something.

Alyssa May

It wasn't a play. Goldman was very concerned about the tunnel. Even if they weren't leaving downtown, this is a reaffirmation by a major international business that they were committed to downtown.

Sheldon Silver

He was so smooth, and, obviously, he was leaving everybody in the dust. At soccer, he was good, but not great.

Jon Davidson

Otherwise, you're leaving money on the table. That's not smart.

Tom Grzymala