Left Quotes

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Some doors are best left closed.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

I'm a liberal and I'm left of Gandhi and I don't like Trump.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

I think that's somewhat of what the left is feeling now - that maybe I'm alone, and they're not. There are millions of us on the right that feel the same way.

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I left my car parked at the top of Lombard Street Hill, and I forgot to put the breaks on. It's the funniest thing. The car is running down the hill.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.