The Left Quotes

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

Let there be no doubt: Democrats are the party with two ideas: borrow and spend. The only vigorous internal debate on the left revolves around two questions: How much and how much more?

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"

In order to love life, I must love living and live love like losing it would look like I have no life left to live.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Two rights don't equal a left.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

The left considers conservatives and Republicans to be their number one enemy, not Islam. Certainly not Islam! We conservatives and Republicans are a greater enemy that even Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.