The Left Quotes

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.