Those moments right before we invaded, I wish that I could have done something. But...
What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away ehat no longer belongs to him.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Failure leaves open a door for us to try and try again.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a...
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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.
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
Murphy's miscellaneous laws: When the telephone operator leaves the board on night mode all the calls would land only on your desk.
Murphy's general laws: Your spouse wins, then leaves you.
Murphy's cars laws: The bus you plan to take always leaves five minutes before you reach the bus stop. The bus you do take is always ten minutes late.
Murphy's medicine laws: You need it to save a life, or the salesman leaves.
Murphy's computers laws: The chances of getting off work on time is inversely proportional to how much e-mail the boss leaves for until end of the day.
Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance, know well what leads you forward and what holds you back.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.
I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages...
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.