Top 100 Quotes About Left
#1. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.
Isolde Martyn
#2. She left the room the way she'd entered it. In silence.
Amanda Gray
#3. Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work ... is my brain - particularly the right brain ... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.
Brian Johnson
#4. The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.
Jesse Helms
#5. Yet there is nothing so vulgar left in our present cultural experience for which some professor cannot be found somewhere to justify it. Reason has died.
Ravi Zacharias
#6. I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen
#7. I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.
Jack Nicholson
#8. The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
J.G. Holland
#10. No, no,' Phil Said. 'It's fine. I've never liked my left leg so much, anyways.
Lemony Snicket
#11. A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#12. You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because The Wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain your heart, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#13. He that changes pride for worldliness, sensuality for Pharisaism, vanity in himself to the contempt of others, let him not think that he has mortified the sin that he seems to have left. He has changed his master, but is a servant still
Anonymous
#14. Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
Norman Vincent Peale
#15. Take a sip from the cup of death ...
And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#16. Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy Allison
#17. Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
Ellen Hopkins
#18. It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#20. He had been fashioned when the sky kissed the sun. Just as I had been fashioned when the sky kissed the moon. The sky, like most immortals, is a fickle bastard who took as he pleased and then paid no attention to the offspring he left behind.
Kristin Cast
#21. With the e-reader, the whole book was on
the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the
gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.
Daniel Seltzer
#22. Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.
Kresley Cole
#23. You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.
Jane Smiley
#24. Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind.
Susan Cain
#25. 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
#26. I was here but now I'm gone
I left my name to carry on
Those who liked me
Liked me well
Those who didn't can go to hell'"
-The bathroom wall
E.M. Crane
#27. The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.
Jentezen Franklin
#28. Some Women have this thermogenic effect on you, even after they've left, you can still breathe her scent, feel her electricity & be stunned
Josh Stern
#29. When she left her room she locked the door and slipped the key into a small pocket inside her corset - no
Kady Cross
#30. I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?
Jennifer Niven
#31. Grace is the first mouthful of each course - chewed and chewed until there's nothing left of it. And all the time you're chewing you pay attention to the flavour of the food, to it's consistency and temperature, to the pressures on your teeth and the feel of the muscles in your jaws.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
J.K. Rowling
#33. Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.
Cherie Priest
#34. I now know my right from my left and my up from my down. Unluckily, my terrible sense of direction remains. For me, to live in New York City is to never be able to meet someone on the northeast corner. It is to never ever make a smooth entrance, always to get caught looking lost on the street.
Sloane Crosley
#35. How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
John Green
#36. 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
#37. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
A.A. Milne
#38. the refugees' safety was guaranteed, though most of them regarded Surinam as no more than a way station to somewhere else and left as soon as they could.
Bernard Wasserstein
#39. Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more
adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth.
Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?
Frank O'Hara
#40. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
Toni Morrison
#41. But peace returns to my heart.
Not peace as it used to be
before it left me years ago. It went away to school,
matured as I did,
and came back looking like me.
Yehuda Amichai
#42. And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.
She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it.
Robert M. Drake
#43. Forgetting everything else, the journey, the compound, escape, the dying man, the many troubles he left behind, the new troubles ahead, his mind wiped itself clean of thought, and the nerves of his body screamed out for input. He was now the predator, and they were his prey.
Steve R. Yeager
#44. I love you now ... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
Gail Carson Levine
#45. But I don't blame you anymore, that's too much pain to store ... it left me half dead ... inside my head. And boy looking back I see I'm not the girl I used to be. When I lost my mind, it saved my life.
MoZella
#46. We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#47. What was he doing in there? Was he just getting dressed reeeaaally slowly? Was he looking through my things? Was he trashing my place because I'd run out and left him there like the biggest jerk this side of Kanye West at the 2009 VMA's?
Cora Carmack
#48. Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
Paul Cezanne
#49. People enters your life and people sometimes left you behind.
Kate
#50. In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Lincoln Chafee
#51. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#53. I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".
Al Kooper
#54. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#55. The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.
Pedro Meyer
#56. I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
Jill Paton Walsh
#57. When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
Vijay Kumar
#58. My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
Aaron Levie
#59. The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.
David Limbaugh
#60. I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.
Lorrie Moore
#61. father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you
Ikkyu
#62. The door could not be heard closing; they must have left it open as is usual in houses visited by great misfortune.
Franz Kafka
#63. As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant.
Thomas S. Monson
#64. You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.
Lou Brutus
#65. If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.
Jerry Coleman
#66. I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.
George Saunders
#67. Fought their duels on Greek territory, conscripted Greek men, requisitioned Greek crops and gold, levied twenty years' taxes in two, and left the cities destitute.
Will Durant
#68. Fine. I'm tame. And boring. I like reading. And the last time I went to a party, I left early because Outlander was on.
Rachel Van Dyken
#69. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me.
Suzanne Collins
#70. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
Fredrik Backman
#71. Sansa felt as though she were in a dream. "Joffrey is dead," she told the trees, to see if that would wake her. He had not been dead when she left the throne room. He had been on his knees, though, clawing at his throat, tearing at his own skin as he fought to breathe. The
George R R Martin
#72. I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.
David Packard
#73. No way. Right tackle only.... No more left
out.
Tim Green
#74. It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.
Tiffany Snow
#75. If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy.
Tony Judt
#76. Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never ... you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer ... all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'
Walter White
#77. Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.
Michael Pollan
#78. I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
Rupert Grint
#79. Kicking the door shut with the heel of my boot, I wedge her against it, raining kisses on her skin, wishing I could climb inside her and kiss away the welts left on her heart and mind.
Poppet
#81. Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision.
Donald Trump
#82. The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left ... is to be perfect.
Jay Asher
#83. This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#84. He sighed. A year since he'd left her the morning after the final battle with her brother. A year since he'd held her in his arms. A year since he'd kissed her. A year since he'd buried his head between her thighs. A year since she'd punched him in the face.
G.A. Aiken
#85. Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland , covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them, but we cannot know which is inside and which outside
Anonymous
#86. How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?
Daven Anderson
#87. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw
#88. My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.
John Steinbeck
#89. I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon
Barack Obama
#90. Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.
Paul Stewart
#91. Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.
Debra Searle
#92. I'm just a woman in the shadows, holding on to secrets so tightly I don't know if there'll be anything left, now that I've let them go.
Gwenda Bond
#93. I stop, then, in my tracks, to recollect the awesome presence that I've left behind, the road ahead so long, my life so short, and bow my head and burst out into tears. While
Francesco Petrarca
#94. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#95. 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
#96. The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
Oscar Wilde
#97. I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
Stephen Levine
#98. You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart,
Jay London
#99. There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.
Alexander Hamilton
#100. I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape - my red flag, my riot sign - I could see Neil staring at me.
Shirley Marr
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