Left Quotes
9060 quotes by 5143 authors
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Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s…
— Dan Ariely
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Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is…
— Julia Sweeney
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You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that…
— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
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With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season
— David Stern
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I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood…
— Darren Hayes
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
— John Ciardi
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The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to…
— Rich Mullins
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I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
— Ellen Wilkinson
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The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an…
— Jane Bowles
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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
— Thomas Piketty
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Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from…
— Katherine Center
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Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.
— Katherine Center
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We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have…
— Diane de Poitiers
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books…
— Ernst Bacon
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying…
— Carol Tavris
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There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with…
— T.D. Jakes
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I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
— Tommy Shaw
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and…
— Virginia Postrel
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
— Marshall Fritz
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