Leaves Quotes

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.