Left Quotes

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

There's not enough of me left over.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.