The Left Quotes

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Father, you left me, but I never left you.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

I left home because I was hungry.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.