The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
Buenaventura Durruti

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
Howard Nemerov

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
Anthony Quinn

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

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Niklaus Wirth

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.
Francis Parkman

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

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
William Faulkner

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

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Alma Gluck