Left Quotes

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.