Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neelly Bellah
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. – Robin S. Sharma
My main reason for leaving WWE was to heal up my body – to give it a rest – and to spend time with my wife and my kids. – Rey Mysterio
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine. – Rick Larsen
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. – Ron Wyden
In the exodus out of Iraq, we’re seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric. – Ryan Zinke
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way. – Robert Baden-Powell
Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I’ve put out are essentially the director’s cut. Part of the process with a director’s cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don’t feel necessary because they aren’t part of the dynamic of the story. – Ridley Scott
I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. – Quentin Tarantino
I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I’m not much of a risk-taker. – Rainbow Rowell
It’s interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can’t, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. – Richard Ford
Without Ukraine, Dugin’s fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later, Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe. – Robert Zubrin
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees. – Raghuram Rajan
When I was really young, Dad wasn’t that well known. I don’t remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books. – Rhianna Pratchett
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea
I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. – Rupert Murdoch
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison
It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don’t leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs. – Richie Benaud
It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don’t want to be the last man standing. – Robbie Fowler
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself. – Rachel Cusk
I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else. – Ray Walston
I don’t really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don’t, it’s like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. – Roman Polanski
Around the holidays, or anytime I’m going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving. – Stacy Keibler
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. – Shunryu Suzuki
I’m proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. – Thomas Kretschmann
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor