When you're a houseguest and you leave it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

I was on leave from local and regional politics as long as I was a Minister.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Politics like theater is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole an empty place and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo to serve the common good and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Consul - in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate or just never come back I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much and so I just went.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.

When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

When I leave here when my final day on this earth is up I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Reason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Love thou the rose yet leave it on its stem.

Forests lakes and rivers clouds and winds stars and flowers stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.