Left Quotes - page 2

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. (Evan Esar)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. View quote
Russell Baker
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians. View quote
Chester Bowles
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. View quote
Christopher Morley
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. View quote
John Barrymore
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. View quote
Plutarch
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? View quote
Charles de Lint
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. (Alexander Pope)
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. View quote
Robert Frost
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 makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. View quote
Henry James
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." View quote
Joseph Addison
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 stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? View quote
Robert Browning
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. View quote
Harriet Harman
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. View quote
Orson Welles
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. (Woody Allen)
Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me. View quote
Ville Valo
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. View quote
Camille Paglia
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path. View quote
Anton LaVey
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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