Leaves Quotes

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.

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.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.