What Is Left Quotes

#1. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.

Eric Vance Walton

#2. Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

Bryan Reardon

#3. What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#4. What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?

Julie Orringer

#5. A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

#6. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Justin Cronin

#7. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

Mark Haddon

#8. That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

Jennifer Haigh

#9. I'm sure it was a good house in its time as well, but sometimes what is left behind when something has been lost is even better than the thing that came before.

Susanna Kearsley

#10. Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.

K.J. Kilton

#11. I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Will Rogers

#12. Count not what is lost, but what is left.

D.B. Patterson

#13. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

#15. What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

Saint John Chrysostom

#16. Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Jacob Bronowski

#17. Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#18. Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Warren Buffett

#19. I have seen death fairly often and never yet been able to find it anything but extraordinary and rather incredible. The real person is so very real, so obviously living and different from what is left that one cannot believe something has turned to nothing.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.

Lucille Zimmerman

#21. Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.

Unknown

#22. When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.

Yann Martel

#24. And this is my most selfish thought, that if I lose the people I love what is left of my own life will consist only of grief.

Abigail Thomas

#25. We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred ... If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Mother Teresa

#26. Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here?
By Mark Miller

Mark Miller

#27. In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#29. As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

Shelley Hamlin

#30. I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped destroy Yugoslavia, and I feel the same about the people who are now selling what is left of it." (p. 13)

Andrej Grubacic

#31. Her conversation was like a Russian newspaper, remarkable for what is left unsaid.

Guy Thorne

#32. What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus

#33. Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

Albert Einstein

#34. If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

Nathan Myhrvold

#35. I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.

Miranda July

#36. The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

Charles Duhigg

#37. Remember, when truth gazes at you from her tallest zenith, why, it never really is the truth, is it? What is, is not, and nothing that is not could possibly be. Now, what is left?

Mary-Jean Harris

#38. This condition is humanity at its most raw, its most vulnerable. It is frightening, but viewed in a different way, it is incredibly beautiful. What is left is the essence of self. The inside is the outside. And don't worry. You'll wear it well.

Bruce H. Kramer

#39. Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Todd Rundgren

#40. Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

John Ciardi

#41. By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De La Rue

#42. Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh heartily.

Kathleen R Fischer

#43. I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones?

Jack Kerouac

#44. Because if we don't forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it's not loving our lovers even when they don't deserve it?

Fredrik Backman

#45. History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

Walter Benjamin

#46. Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

Marianne Williamson

#47. Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

James Bryant Conant

#48. Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

Jude Morgan

#49. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston S. Churchill

#50. It's not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn't be able to go about their day to day lives, they would just be too freaked out, and what is left of society would crumble.

M.D. Bowden

#51. When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

#52. That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

T. S. Eliot

#53. The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Robert Kiyosaki

#54. A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#55. I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Thomas Hardy

#56. A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day?" "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

Victor Hugo

#57. Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

John Muir

#58. Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

Ram Dass

#59. One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

Katherine Paterson

#60. The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

Jay Maisel

#61. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

#62. Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Jeanne Moreau

#63. I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.

Lisa Moore

#64. We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

C.S. Lewis

#65. There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those things is liberty. Without liberty, without individual freedom, what is left to conserve isn't worth all that much.

Lyn Nofziger

#66. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

Thomas Leonard

#67. When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#68. There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.

Lennox Lewis

#69. A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward De Bono

#70. We do not adopt a belief because it is true (they are all true), but because some obscure power impels us to do so. When this power leaves us, we suffer prostration and collapse, a tete-a-tete with what is left of ourselves.

Emil Cioran

#71. He'd have to tell the Mage what he saw.
I've finally seen the Humdrum, sir.
I know what we're fighting
me.
'What's left of you.' the monster had
said.
What is left of me? Simon wondered.
A ghost? A hole? An echo?
An angry little boy with nervous
hands?

Rainbow Rowell

#72. What is left of your dream?
Just the words on your stone.
A man who learned how to teach
then forgot how to learn.

Brian May

#73. Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

Doris Lessing

#74. Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#75. In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

John Muir

#76. For me, minimalism is about getting rid of unnecessary clutter (in all areas of life!), organizing what is left, and living in a peaceful, contented state, devoid of the extra stress that too much baggage brings to your life.

Kristen D. Smith

#77. A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland

#78. I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

Vera Farmiga

#79. This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

Jon Chopan

#80. There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left ... instead of Hip Hop we have Hip replacement.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#81. Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

Max Anders

#82. If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.

Mother Teresa

#83. Every relation challenges; every relation asks me to be something, do something, respond. Close off response and what is left? Bearing...enduring...waiting.

May Sarton

#84. Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to: it is what is left after the whittling-away of alternatives.' Elizabeth Bowen opened her Notes on Writing a Novel (1945, reprinted in Collected Impressions, Longmans, Green & Co.,

Elizabeth Bowen

#85. What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

Pooja A.H.

#86. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Charles Lamb

#87. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

Diana Gabaldon

#88. Can he find it in his heart to love this plain, ordinary woman? Can he love her enough to write a music for her? If he cannot, what is left for him?

J.M. Coetzee

#89. In writing there are many secrets too. Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#90. It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Lucy Stone

#91. What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that ... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.

Anthony Bourdain

#92. Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

David Levithan

#93. When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#94. Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

Peace Pilgrim

#95. I have rejected religion and society. What is left for me?

Daniel A. Craig

#96. When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

Markus Peterson

#97. 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

#98. Life is like Bed of Roses... Start giving away the Roses to make others happy and you would know what is left behind in your bed for you...

John Gabriel

#99. This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down.

W.G. Sebald

#100. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.

Louis De Bernieres