People Left Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
— James A. Baldwin
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis.…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
— Meg Wolitzer
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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This…
— Bill Gates
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That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't…
— Laura Dave
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My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people…
— Paula Yates
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that…
— Will Rogers
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this…
— Vivienne Westwood
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He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
— Patrick Süskind
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
— Ann Brashares
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Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you…
— Cassandra Clare
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came…
— Alice Sebold
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
— Ann Brashares
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Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She…
— Steig Larsson
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Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound…
— Lucy Christopher
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Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
— Darynda Jones
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So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
— Patrick Süskind
Who Wrote These People Left Quotes
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