Left Quotes

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.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

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 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.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

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

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

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.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.