Top 100 Sayings About Being Left
#1. Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.
Chanakya
#2. Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.
Paul Stewart
#3. Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again.
Paige McKenzie
#4. I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.
David Plotz
#5. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.
Rebecca Solnit
#6. Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified.
Mary Pipher
#7. To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. "You
Julie Murphy
#8. Time is running faster than watch.
Life is running faster than Time.
We are running faster than Life.
In this race, relationships are being left behind
Pankaj Gupta
#9. In the darkness of a thousand
withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I
sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps
it is selfish of me, but an uncertain future
with him, in all its laughter and quarrels, is better
than being left behind.
Yangsze Choo
#10. If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.
Gitta Sereny
#11. The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.
Howard Schultz
#12. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
Anna Godbersen
#13. I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'
Robert Smith
#14. I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
Nelson Gidding
#15. To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
Anita Shreve
#16. I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
John Surtees
#18. Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience - that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.
Sylvain Reynard
#19. I believe we could see a North American Union formed. Why else are our borders with Mexico and Canada being left wide open some six years into a War on Terror?
George Noory
#20. Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.
Steve Case
#21. To see how Grandfather handles leaving, and to
see how we manage being left.
Ally Condie
#22. The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.
Howard Schultz
#23. Leaving can't be nearly as hard as being left, Cam.
Ally Carter
#24. I don't like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.
Hanif Kureishi
#26. The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#27. Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.
George Osborne
#28. There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun
#29. I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use
Dave Barry
#30. My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#31. Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
Robin Hobb
#32. When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.
Tim Reid
#33. When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
John Terry
#34. The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices - after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
Tom Stoppard
#35. Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.
Jo Walton
#36. I just ... I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone ... but when the TV was off, and the sun was down ... I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it.
Andrea Randall
#37. I would have appreciated the option of joining you and Reece instead of being left with the three bickering hens. I thought you were more compassionate, Levi. -Harrison Oxley
S.L. Morgan
#38. It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that."
"Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam.
"But I am going to Mordor."
"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.
David Levithan
#40. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound ... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. For someone who fears being left... you sure do a lot of running.
Julia London
#42. Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it's you who's being left behind.
Julie Murphy
#43. If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive
all would have perished by want of subsistence.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. Goodbye is never easy, no matter what side we are on.
Whether you are the one leaving or being left, we mourn the love that is now gone.
Natalie Ducey
#45. For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
A.A. Milne
#46. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
John Green
#47. The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott
#48. People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ
they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.
Peter E. Gillquist
#49. If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
Stephen Chbosky
#50. To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.
Michael Bennet
#51. Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.
Colin Cotterill
#52. In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.
Leila Janah
#53. Love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void
at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
#54. Goodbye is a strange concept - if the person being left behind resents it and refuses to accept it, is it still goodbye, or simply a departure?
Marla Miniano
#55. The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
Thomas Sowell
#57. I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.
Catherine Stock
#58. The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
Najib Razak
#59. Ah, there you are," said Scarsbury. "George Lovelace was beside himself. He wanted to assemble a search party for you." Simon regretted his spiteful thoughts about George's horsemanship. "Let me guess," said Simon. "Everyone else said 'Nah, being left for dead builds character.
Cassandra Clare
#60. Being left out was a kind of freedom...
Lauren Kate
#61. Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
John Kessel
#62. For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.
Judith Viorst
#63. A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.
Carl Eckart
#65. Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me.
Sarah Protzman
#66. The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#67. When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
Will.i.am
#68. And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?
Well. Yes.
Robin McKinley
#69. Think about what you like to do and don't talk yourself into something for fear of being left out. That being said, it's important to try different things. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and you may surprise yourself.
Amy E. Spiegel
#70. yet to be moved by music is essentially human; it reflects sensitivity. The life Gregor led as a human being left no room for this kind of appreciation. But, regressing into an animal, his sensibility has become refined rather than coarsened.
Franz Kafka
#71. For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they're being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism.
Marco Rubio
#72. Historical science is being left in the dust.
Jack Horner
#73. Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Hillary Clinton
#74. How evil it is to wish I was the one leaving and not the one being left.
Anonymous
#75. I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me.
Marilynne Robinson
#76. Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity ... are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
James C. Collins
#77. It hurts," she whispered, wrapping her arms around a pillow and pulling it closer to her chest. Her eyes stayed closed, and I watched a few tears slip out. "Being left behind hurts.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#78. The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
Jonathan Messinger
#79. I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.
Carrie Ryan
#80. She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.
Sue Grafton
#81. I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
Miuccia Prada
#82. It's hard being left behind. ( ... ) It's hard to be the one who stays.
Audrey Niffenegger
#83. Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#85. The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Tim Berners-Lee
#86. In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.
George Weah
#87. I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
Peter Robinson
#88. It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays behind.
Audrey Niffenegger
#89. Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.
Ginni Rometty
#90. Ostracism makes individuals feel they lack purpose, have less control over their lives, are less good moral beings, and lack self-worth. Those high school cliques aren't uniquely adolescent experiences: Human beings hate being left out. We conform because to do so seems to give our life meaning.
Anonymous
#91. I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
Richard Dawkins
#92. While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
Tran Duc Luong
#93. The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#94. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
Courtney Milan
#95. No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.
Deborah Curtis
#96. Being left behind was a special kind of loss. -
J.R. Ward
#97. Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#98. She brushed off her hands and grabbed her purse, setting off for the back porch with purpose. On the ground, Cocky squawked his indignation at being left. "Hush," Cole chided him. "You've already gotten more play than me.
Alessandra Torre
#99. It was during that time he made me realize the scariest part about death, about being left behind - nothing else freezes after losing a loved one besides you.
Jennifer Snyder
#100. I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
Jessica Sorensen
