Left Quotes

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.

I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold

It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

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

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger.

I was a right winger into the 70s but I left the right in late 70s.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

I am a left winger, thought.