Left Quotes

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.

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.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.