Left Quotes

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

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.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

What is left when honor is lost?

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.