Left Quotes · Page 73

The Left is deeply invested in Obama's presidency; they believe he's too important, symbolically, to fail.

— David Oshinsky

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

— Cesare Pavese

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.

— Guy Lafleur

I just staunchly bought one frame during a two-for-one frame sale and barely left the store alive.

— Dana Gould

When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.

— Gerald Celente

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

— Thomas Frank

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions…

— Thomas Jefferson

He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian…

— Herrick Johnson

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life…

— Isabel Allende

I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum…

— C.E. Morgan

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left…

— Venus Williams

Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes…

— Dick Strawbridge

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually…

— Diane de Poitiers

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

— Desmond Tutu

The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases…

— Anonymous

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and…

— Jonathan Kozol

The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally…

— J. I. Packer

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by…

— Gwynne Dyer

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and…

— Joe Wright

When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's…

— Emily Yoffe

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is…

— Gary Bauer

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

— Rick Santorum

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

— Elvis Presley

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

— Will Champion

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

— James Lileks

“Love is always reminding me that there is something else left to do”

— Tonny K. Brown

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

— Haley Bennett

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you…

— Curtis Jackson

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

— Pierre Laval

“After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

— Anh Do

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

— John Ciardi

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”

— Paul Hoffman

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

— Dennis Prager

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

— Brock Thoene

“I embraced all of you, but you only wanted me when you were down and left when you were up.”

— Marion Bekoe

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

— Simon Cowell