Left Quotes

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 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.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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.

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

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.

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.