Left Quotes · Page 87

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

— James Earl Jones

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

— Heinrich von Kleist

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

— John Updike

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

— Jonas Blue

Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.

— Big Daddy Kane

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

— Laurent Fabius

“and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about…

— Tom Tomorrow

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

— Norman Foster

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness…

— Tara Brach

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

— Terence McKenna

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of…

— John Muir

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I…

— Felicity Jones

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything…

— Ernie J Zelinski

“It would be better for all of us if you left. Rachel can’t grow up around that sort of thing. That sort…

— standbyme (AO3

There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost…

— William J. Clinton

I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes…

— Dalai Lama

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists:…

— Martin Rees

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody…

— William Sloane Coffin

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the…

— Elias Hicks

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six…

— Jamie Muir

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit…

— George Bowen

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave…

— Charlie Crist

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

— Tony Benn

I was born, and the doctor left. And then the nurse is like, 'Doctor, I think there's another one.'

— Jonathan Scott

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

— Jeremy London

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

— Jock Sturges

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

— David Platt

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

— Silvio Berlusconi

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

— Muhammad Ali

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

— Amy Tan

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm an attacking player - I prefer left wing, right wing. They're quite even for me.

— Michail Antonio

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

— Ernest Dimnet

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

— Samuel West

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

— Jonathan Swift

Everyone else has left before. I hope you'll be the one who decides to stay.

— ProudLesbian

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

— Christopher Isherwood

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

— Lester Thurow