“When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.” PeopleMayMadePurposeDiesNationsWishCausesLosesChanceCommonCitiesSilenceHellGenerationsCryWillingBrokenUltimateTownsCommunicateGhostGrantedCollapseLeaving MeUnlikelyMe AloneOur GenerationExplosivesLeave Me AloneAnother ChanceWilling To DieCommon PurposeGhost TownJust Leave Me Alone Author:Jeff Myers
“my mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart.” HeartTogetherMotherMy HeartLeaving MeNever Leave Me Author:Oksana Baiul
“I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.” HardInterestingWatchesHard WorkDustShut UpFabulousLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneFabulous Life Author:Mark Morris
“Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!” PlayFineDinnerBurningRomeLeaving MeEldersNeroTime To Leave Author:Red Buttons
“I had five dollars in the bank that I couldn't have for three days until they charged me another 15. Leaving me with -10. What does that mean? I don't even have no money any more. I wish I had nothing. But I don't have it. I don't have that much. I have not ten. Negative ten. I can't afford to buy something that doesn't cost anything. I can only afford to get something that costs you give me ten dollars.” GivingMeanDoeI CanThreeWishFiveCostTenNegativeGive MeDollarsLeavingLeaving MeNo Money Author:Louis C. K.
“It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.” PeopleYearsHumansDifferentKidsRememberYoungNaturalDealsHappenedHuman NatureOne DayCome UpHearingInterviewsLeaving MeSmall ThingsMe AloneNatural ThingsLeave Me Alone Author:Michael Buble
“The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue.” YearsWarEndsBlackCareersYears AgoCriticsFeministOpponentsRescueOddsSixtyLeaving Me Author:Ishmael Reed
“Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.” WantMadeFunHellDrinkingLots Of MoneyLeaving MeMe AloneGo To HellLeave Me Alone Author:Bill Murray
“I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me.” ThinkingKnowsGivingSometimesOrderMy OwnTeachLetting GoLonelyLet MeLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me Alone Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison
“We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'” PeopleThinkingWantTestsTendenciesBehaveWant MeLeaving MeYou Want Me Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.” PeopleIfsWantHeartSoulStoriesUsedWalksMillionsSpecialEffectsColdTheaterStudiosUsed To BeMaking MoneyLeaving MeExplosionsSpecial Effects Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I was attached to star in a project that was going to be an unbelievable character piece, to be showcased all over the world. It was everything I had been working toward and had suffered for. I had two months to prep and pretty much bankrupted myself in the process. A week before I was supposed to get on the plane, the whole project fell apart. Not only did it leave me completely broke and out of work, but I felt as if I had been betrayed by acting. Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am. I was shattered. Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward.” IfsWorldTwoWholeCharacterStarsFeltProcessActingPiecesWeekMonthsProjectsWho I AmBrokePlanesUnbelievableBetrayedLeaving MeShatteredTwo MonthsPreps Author:Jonathan Keltz
“The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.” TryingMatterSexGayAspectMalesSexualityNervousAppealsLeaving MeBeing Afraid Author:Christopher Rice
“I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.” LittlesTwoSelfWholeJesusNeighborCommandGod LoveTwo ThingsLive BySimplestLeaving MeConsumingLittle Time Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.” WantYearsMadeTodayCultureReligiousBehindsGrewGrew UpTraditionAcceptedWho I AmLeaving MeReligious Family Author:Brendon Urie
“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.” ThinkingChildrenLongFeelingsGrowsGrowing UpConditionsGrewGayGrew UpTragedyMeaningfulLeaving MeHaving ChildrenLong Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“When I watch the show [Westworld], it leaves me looking at the world around me in a new way. It really stays with you. And it's one of those things that you have to figure out. You're going to get little clues along the way, and every time you think you know what's up, we're going to flip it around. It's going to take you for a really awesome, crazy ride, but it's a really, really revolutionary character for women. There's a lot of really fun stuff to look forward to.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayLooksLittlesCharacterShowsFunStuffWatchesCrazyFiguresRevolutionaryNew WaysClueLeaving MeFlipYou Think You KnowFun StuffReally Awesome Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.” TryingYearsCallingEmptyLeavingI RealizedLeaving MeRelentlessGave UpBeckoning Author:Dominic Balli
“For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.” IfsKnowsFirstsTwoDifferentFatherSoundFourHappenedFirst TimeEmptyAddMake SenseLeaving MeCornyTanksDifferent DirectionsKilling Yourself Author:Paula White
“My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction was, oh yes dear, and when are you leaving? She didn't say, oh how could you leave me, your mother? Or wait a bit dear until you get a bit older and you know your own mind. She just said, well, when are you going? And that was because she loved me, not because she didn't love me.” KnowsMindWellsSaidMotherBitsWaitingIndiaLeavingDearReactionsLeaving MeNineteenSuperbYes Dear Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.” StatesFactsLossCuttingHusbandShockMy HusbandBusMentorMultitudesLeaving MeEmpoweredSurrogates Author:Paula Broadwell
“I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.” IfsThinkingShouldHomeFoundHouseLeftSoundDyingStrangeDecidedEastGhostCaliforniaHallsFuneralLeaving MeHallwaysStairways Author:Gene Wilder
“Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.” IfsGivingBookCertainMy OwnAnswersPossibilityFindingsSolutionsLeaving Me Author:Sergio Leone
“That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.” ThinkingSometimesPoliticalLosesAwarenessOfficeBreathsYeahActivistLeaving MeConstraintsPolitical SystemsJust Smile Author:Barack Obama
“My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.” IfsWantGovernmentWantedAmericaRussiaLatinCaptureLeaving MeCiaLatin AmericaPassportsImpunity Author:Edward Snowden
“Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.” PeopleSaidIdeasHardMomentsStoriesEasyWaitingSimpleTalkingMagicLeavingDisappearI RealizedGirlfriendThat MomentAirplaneLeaving MeMy GirlfriendSimple Ideas Author:David Copperfield
“If I leave you alone, and you leave me alone, we are both better off. And I will leave you alone if you leave me alone. And there is a lot of traction to be gained from that.” IfsBetter OffLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneTraction Author:William G. Kline
“I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.” HeartStuffSleepColdBedIntimateReportsSheetsLeaving MeItemsColumnsPowderMinerva Author:Paul Newman
“Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."” WayFeelsBelieveWould BeEasyVoiceTiredDon't BelieveLeaving MeHymnsClevelandGreat Freedom Author:Hillary Clinton
“My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.” FilmConditionsLeaving MeUnsatisfied Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.” TryingStoriesGuyRightsMy FriendsModestLeaving MeGymnasticsIntimidatedBraggingLife StoryBlushingRoommateBragging Rights Author:Alicia Sacramone
“There were years of that stuff that will never leave me. Never. When the bus turned a million miles - that's a lot of traveling. It's really cool to think about. I'm blessed to have traveled a million miles on a tour bus.” ThinkingYearsStuffMillionsBlessedMilesBusTraveledLeaving MeReally CoolNever Leave Me Author:Kenny Chesney
“If I'm a young mom or young dad, I can find a great source of strength. God has promised that He will help me to be the mom or dad that He wants me to be. He has promised to be with me every step of the way. He has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me. These are wonderful promises that I can learn to trust and build a life on.” IfsWayWantI CanHelpingYoungStepsWonderfulSourceMomDadPromiseHelp MeWant MeLeaving MeEvery StepForsakeSource Of StrengthNever Leave MeHe Wants Me Author:Max Lucado
“My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.” CareUsedConversationDon't CareI Don't CareGrandfatherLeaving MeMy GrandfatherDon't Leave Me Author:George Thorogood
“I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.” IfsWantLittlesMightBitsLosesOne ThingLittle BitTinyTomsBellyLeaving MeSoftness Author:Nicole Kidman
“I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.” WorldPassionOpportunityInterestingPossibilityEthicsPhilosophicalButterflyLeaving Me Author:John Kleinig
“Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.” WorldTodayModernInternetLeaving Me Author:Werner Herzog
“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.” ThinkingImportantBookMomentsProblemWinningPrayerPolicyDrugAddictionLawyerMedicalLeaving Me Author:Glenn Loury
“I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday. My presence beside him was even more important in his bad times. But that didn't leave me a great deal of room in which to maneuver. Freedom is an intellectual space. But I don't use it.” ImportantWeekIntellectualSaintAbandonedSaturdayLeaving MeBad Times Author:Pierre Berge
“My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.” PeopleDoneHomeCareCrazySevenComing HomeI CareLeaving Me Author:Kate Beaton
“Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.” EnoughResponsibilitySituationDoubtEgoInsecurityLeaving Me Author:Ariel Pink
“My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.” BookFeelingsFilmMovingReadingAudienceProductiveWasting TimeLeaving Me Author:Michael Haneke
“I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.” PeopleBelieveKindBoringLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneSo Boring Author:Miranda Richardson
“I keep "leave me alone, I'm busy " pretending to work sign with me because my dad once told me to find a job that you would do for free and I would do this job for free. But I would be a performer for free because that's all I've ever loved to do. I've worked so hard to get to the point where work doesn't feel like work. So when I come to work, I'm actually coming to play - I'm coming to recess. So, when you see me, leave me alone, I'm busy ... pretending to work.” DadMy DadBusyPretendingLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me Alone Author:James Monroe Iglehart
“Choosing happiness is a scary thing. Choosing love is a scary thing. When I was in the war, not only did I not have a voice, but I had to make myself not be heard, not be seen, become dumb, mute, blind, invisible, just so I could survive. When you fall in love, you become alive, all of a sudden you are singing. For me, there was a fear that the person I love would one day leave me, whether by their own choice or that they would die. How was I going to survive that? Choosing love and happiness is to know life goes on. I had to believe that.” BelieveWarChoicesFallLove IsLove YouOne DaySingingBlindFalling In LoveScaryInvisibleDumbLeaving MeLife Goes On Author:Loung Ung
“By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then at a certain point in my teens I started to go to Catholic churches, by myself. Not because I wanted to be Catholic, but because I wanted to light a candle and say something like a prayer and just sit there. There was something I was missing or trying to reconnect with. But it was a secret at the time. I'd developed this cynical persona and the last thing I wanted to admit was that I was skulking around churches in my spare time.” TryingChurchPrayerSecretMissingCatholicCandleCynicalCrapLeaving MePersonaMe AloneLeave Me Alone Author:Ayana Mathis
“I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.” GodPlansGods WillObedienceLeaving MeObedience To God Author:George MacDonald
“Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.” RoomsWallDrawsLeaving MeCrayon Author:Marilyn Manson
“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'” MenWantCharacterHelpingGuyGamesShotsDiedBusyViolentVideoHeyPerformingHospitalsSurgeryThis GuyLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneComputer GamesPlaying Video GamesJust Leave Me AloneViolent Video Games Author:Demetri Martin