Left Quotes

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.