The Left Quotes

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.

No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!