Left Quotes

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?

If somebody says, "You like putting out fires," and I say, "It's not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren't fires left I make them, so I can put them out." It's what we do.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

There is so much left of it to explore.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

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.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

I can go right, I can go left, I'm amphibious.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

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

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.