Leaves Quotes

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Rowan D. Williams

Bad, Human, Less

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Point, Rest

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Soul, Stars, Flowers

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Pain, Lonely

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.
John Ruskin

Time, Good, Strong

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

Beautiful, Old, Light

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Rudyard Kipling

Art, Heart, Pretty

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Old, Year, Until

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time, Behind, Shadow

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

Age, Wise, Mind

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William Blake

Dream, Among, Repose

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier

Less, Lies, Talking

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John Ruskin

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.
Roald Dahl

Writing, Different, Two

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Men, War, Fight

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander

Life, Courage, Alone

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison

Great, Down, Genius

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck

Hope, Fun, Woman

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
Mason Cooley

Confused, Exciting, Rage

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Die

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Paul Valery

Great, After, Others

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Problems, Roots, Hacking

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Joan Jett

Mean, May, Tough

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

Art, Gossip, Nothing

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein

Life, Great, Feeling

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles

Nature, Disgust, Unfit

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
Tom Hiddleston

Past, Soul, Until

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson

Life, Time, After

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

Good, Sacrifice, Confused

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