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I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.