The Left Quotes

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

I can play in the center, on the right and occasionally on the left side.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Interviewer: Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player? Beckham: Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?