Left Quotes

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.