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[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.
It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.
It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.
It hurts me that Puyol is leaving Barcelona, and I wish him well. For me, he was always the fire that the team needed.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey
I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.
England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.
Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.
Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.
He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!
Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog.
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.