Left Quotes

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I never felt I left the stage.

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

The left has lost the common touch.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.