The Left Quotes

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

In my heart, I've never left Brazil.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

There is always something left to lose.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Is there decency left in American politics?

I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat.

The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare. "The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.

You are the Lightwoods — you are all that is left of the Lightwoods.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.