Top 100 If I Left Quotes
#1. What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
Warren Ellis
#2. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?
Don Zimmer
#4. Warren threatened my life if I left you alone," he said.
"Really?" I asked surprised.
He laughed and nodded his head. "Yea. First, I threatened to kill him. Now he's threatened to kill me. I think we've reached the first level of friendship.
Elicia Hyder
#5. It just made me realize that I wouldn't have anything if you left," he said miserably. Jake gave a pained wince and looked down at the floor. "I wouldn't have anything if I left, either," he murmured.
Madeleine Urban
#6. All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?
Abraham Verghese
#7. For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.
Amanda Schull
#8. I think they would like the songs better
if I left out the names, or changed
the pronouns.
David Levithan
#9. An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What type of person would I be if I left my savior behind. I'm not leaving you behind.
Katie McGarry
#10. Even if no one would miss me, even if I left no blank space in anyone's life, even if no one noticed, I couldn't leave willingly.
Haruki Murakami
#11. She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.
Pittacus Lore
#12. People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
Don McLean
#13. Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live.
Haruki Murakami
#14. The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
Paolo Di Canio
#15. Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies.
(Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)
Melissa Marr
#16. I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Douglass North
#17. If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.
Arsene Wenger
#18. What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
Jess Walter
#19. I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you
' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
Alexandre Dumas
#20. If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#21. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.
Haruki Murakami
#22. All sorts of people told me their stories. Then they left, never to return, as if I were no more than a bridge they were clattering across.
Haruki Murakami
#23. (On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
Laraine Day
#24. There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean I never loved her? How can I get over it? I can't, I mustn't. But what else am I going to do?
Marie Phillips
#25. Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
Karl Malone
#26. If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
Brett Hull
#27. When people died, they took their voices with them. I wondered if they knew how much the people left behind would kill for their sounds one last time.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#28. I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.
Julianna Baggott
#29. I left my soul at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar. If found, don't return follow me into the endless night.
Michelle Hughes
#30. Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
Antonio Davis
#31. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
Rick Riordan
#32. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.
Ocieanna Fleiss
#33. I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math - if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Joan Rivers
#34. What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#35. Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
Rod Steiger
#36. I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle.
Gus Poyet
#37. Shush. I don't care if you're damaged, or if you're not strong inside. Guess what? Nobody is. Whatever you have left is enough.
Jane Seville
#38. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
David Niven
#39. What if he really has given up? What am I supposed to do ten?
Keep trying until you have no more chances left. And even then keep going.
Aimee Carter
#40. If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#41. Aw, I'm not going to give up that easily," he smiled. "You're the one who started it. You shouldn't have kissed me like that if you wanted to be left alone.
Audrey Bell
#42. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#43. I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine.
Richard MacDonald
#44. If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.
Zephyr McIntyre
#45. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?
Sarah Dessen
#46. I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
Thomas A. Edison
#47. When I get a little money I buy books," he confessed to a friend. "If any is left, I buy food and clothes."13
Diana Butler Bass
#48. I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he'd have nothing left for you.
Sylvain Reynard
#49. The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.
Michael Moore
#50. One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.
Molly Antopol
#52. I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
Patton Oswalt
#53. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
Melanie Griffith
#54. If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.
John F. Kennedy
#55. Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that.
Cornel West
#56. I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.
Todd Rundgren
#57. It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.
Henry Peach Robinson
#58. That feeling terrified me because now I had someone else in my life that I'd give up everything for. I'd already given so much. What would be left, if I kept giving pieces of myself away?
Aileen Erin
#59. I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.
Florence King
#60. If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.
Taylor Swift
#61. Miss, I'm sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn't be a woman left in London.
Loretta Chase
#62. I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
Mo Ibrahim
#63. I left then too, more confused and hurt than ever and with a sadness tugging on my heart like a sinking anchor. If I wasn't careful, I would drown.
Mindee Arnett
#64. I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
Martin Campbell
#65. I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
D. B. Weiss
#66. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.
Aspen Matis
#67. If I had one last breath left, I would use it to tell you how much I love you, because I do, and I always will.
Sandi Lynn
#68. I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.
John Dramani Mahama
#69. If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde
#70. I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future can use then I don't feel like we've served our purpose on this earth in an effective manner.
Jerome Ringo
#71. If i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.
Henry Rollins
#72. You own every piece of me, Cadence Taylor, and if you let me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving to you that you're the only thing left worth fighting for.
Melyssa Winchester
#73. If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Dan Simmons
#74. I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
Benjamin Guggenheim
#75. I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them - as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.
Liz Rosenberg
#76. I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.
Sam Torode
#77. If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
Karl Marx
#78. My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
Peyton Manning
#79. I looked down at my hands. They were folded neatly together on the table like they belonged to someone else, as if someone had left their gloves behind and I had arranged them ready for collection.
R.J. Ellory
#80. I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"
Tom Van Vleck
#81. If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR
Bill Gates
#82. Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
David Duchovny
#83. I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.
Jonathan Kozol
#84. Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.
Louis Sachar
#85. I fucking loved that girl, Sky. I need to believe that what she did was the only answer she had left, because if I don't, then I'll never forgive myself for not helping her find a different one.
Colleen Hoover
#86. What I know is that she sets me on fire, and if you were to perform an intradermal test on me, you'd know when she was in it because you'd see the trails of blaze she left behind. Because that's what I feel at the mere thought of her, and I'd rather live my life in flames than be numb without her.
Claire Contreras
#87. In the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#88. I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
Hans Frank
#89. Are you coming with us?"
He looked down at me, his eyes a cool mint green. He seemed to have calmed down since Cadan left.
"If you wish."
"I would feel better if you were close," I whispered. "Cadan freaked me out."
"Then of course," he said. "I'll follow you anywhere.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#90. If somebody had told me that you have a choice of
being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers,
there would not have been a choice at all. I would
have said, 'Where's my locker?'
Alice Cooper
#91. I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
Will Champion
#92. I'm left on a lot of things. If two gay guys want to get married, I could care less. If a nut case from overseas wants to blow up their wedding, that's when I'm right.
Dennis Miller
#93. If I'd have been thinking I would have left some Woolite and my delicates by the sink for him to rinse out, but you never think to turn your pet raccoon into a tiny butler until it's too late.
Jenny Lawson
#94. I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed.
Sarah Rayner
#95. If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me.
Louie Anderson
#96. I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.
Mandy Moore
#97. I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.
Molly Parker
#98. I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport.
Neely Tucker
#99. However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
Matthew Arnold
#100. I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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