Top 100 Left To Quotes
#1. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
#2. The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
#5. Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored.
V.C. Andrews
#6. Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.
Debra Searle
#7. I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon
Barack Obama
#8. O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.
David Mallet
#9. Look at the most religious areas of the world at present - the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.
J.G. Ballard
#11. Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.
Frankie Valli
#12. Negative courage. Give up on yourself, and you have nothing left to fear. You become invincible.
Adam Baker
#13. She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.
Alan Bennett
#14. I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Oscar Wilde
#15. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Noam Chomsky
#16. I didn't have enough voice left to scream. And it wasn't like anything was going to change. No matter how much I cried, even if I let myself yell, things were never going to get better.
Morgan Matson
#17. My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley
#18. Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to its own devices, nature quickly populates a corpse with a diverse community of organisms, all dedicated to reducing the body to its basic components.
M. Lee Goff
#19. How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.
Gerald Vann
#20. Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear.
Terry Pratchett
#21. The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge
Howard Marks
#22. When a decision is inevitable you may as well take it as quick as possible so that you still have something left to deal with whatever consequences may arise.
Mark Lawrence
#23. Disorder keeps increasing if things are left to themselves.
Christine Feehan
#24. Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
Peter Greenaway
#25. Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.
Mandy Hale
#26. And if I want to leave here without regrets, I need to know there are no more unsaid words left to haunt me.
Josh
Katja Millay
#27. It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.
Vera Brittain
#28. We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.
Donald Sutherland
#29. 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.
Sitting Bull
#30. There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity.
C.M. Kornbluth
#31. The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.
Betty Furness
#32. All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
Aldo Leopold
#33. Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
#34. Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don't feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.
Samantha Hunt
#35. If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
Roger Sherman
#36. I jerked my phone out of my pocket and took a sharp left to follow the bold green line. I didn't fail to notice my walking icon had been replaced with a bicycle. Stupid Google. Doesn't have a "Succubus on Steroids" setting.
J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 1198-1199).
J.R. Thorn
#37. The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
Jamie Oliver
#38. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#39. These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
#41. Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#42. The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.
Margaret Clitherow
#43. If love is left untainted by our promiscuous meddling, and if it is left to be all that God designed it to be, God will use it to turn pain to our profit in His pursuit of our perfection.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it.
Ron Rash
#45. When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.
Jane Porter
#46. Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
Ellen G. White
#47. Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.
Margaret Deland
#48. Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Thomas Huxley
#49. I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
John Darnielle
#50. Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
Monica Johnson
#51. And I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I ... I hurt no more, while you ... you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.
Kellie Elmore
#52. Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
Martha Beck
#53. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.
Massimo Marino
#54. I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again.
Shane McAnally
#55. God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
John Owen
#56. If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.
Judith Tarr
#57. A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
Robert Payne
#58. I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..
Alexandra Bracken
#59. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.
Baylie Karperien
#60. After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#61. Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
Janis Joplin
#62. And now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.
Charles Bukowski
#64. [Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
Jimmy Buffett
#65. When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
#66. Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
Alan Huffman
#68. It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.
Bernard Darwin
#69. I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
Edward Bloor
#70. Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?
Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.
Toba Beta
#71. The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
Oscar Wilde
#72. It will be a long while until I shall call myself well. I think perhaps too long - longer than I have left to live. But for now, I feel a great deal better than I did, and that is enough.
G. Willow Wilson
#73. Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun.
Greever Williams
#74. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.
Diana Gabaldon
#76. Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
Barton Seaver
#77. This is not my Clan. Not any longer. ThunderClan is led by a kittypet, and there's nothing left to fight for. I feel no loyalty to ThunderClan. In the whole forest, the only cat worth following is Tigerstar.
Erin Hunter
#78. We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.
William J. Clinton
#79. My whole life, I was waiting for someone to save me, and he did. I knew in that moment that I would never be unloved, I would never be abandoned, and I would never be left to fight the monsters alone.
E.K. Blair
#80. Love left to languish will bear poisonous fruit.
Sarah Winter
#81. I guess when you risk hell, there's not much left to scare you.
Tyler Hamilton
#82. What is left to be afraid of?' And he said, 'The possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most worthy struggle.
Andrew Krivak
#83. Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
#84. There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.
Jacqueline Winspear
#85. There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
Francis I
#86. Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
Grayson Perry
#87. He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He
Gabrielle Zevin
#88. Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
James Crumley
#89. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
James Madison
#90. Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.
Barack Obama
#91. Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.
Melika Dannese Lux
#92. The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
John Vance Cheney
#93. God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
Huey Long
#94. When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
George Orwell
#95. The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
Susan B. Anthony
#96. If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales
Andy Zaltzman
#97. The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God. Paul
David Jeremiah
#98. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?
Victor Hugo
#99. History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
#100. Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
Gordon Lightfoot
