The Left Quotes

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

Take God from nature, nothing great is left.

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?

We left Germany when I was 11.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.