Left Quotes
9060 quotes by 5549 authors
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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
— George Carlin
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself…
— John le Carre
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It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
— Jim Carrey
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It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's…
— Johnny Cash
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and…
— Willa Cather
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
— Dick Cavett
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Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
— Paul Cezanne
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
— Lincoln Chafee
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The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.
— Lincoln Chafee
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked…
— Chanakya
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism…
— Hugo Chavez
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
— Anton Chekhov
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The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went…
— Dick Cheney
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
— Cher
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