The Left Quotes

Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Faith is under the left nipple.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.

When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.

For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

I scored 1.1 on my SAT, And still push a whip with a right and left AC.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.