The Left Quotes

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.