The Left Quotes

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

You might be a redneck if you consider a good tan to be the back of your neck and the left arm below the shirt sleeve.

You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

The media does not love Hillary Clinton left, right or center.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.