The Left Quotes
It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.
When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.
I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.
I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.
Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.
It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women.
The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.
Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.