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Earth, left silent by the wind of night, Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height. (William Morris)
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world. View quote
Ramakrishna
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder. View quote
Epictetus
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. View quote
Elie Wiesel
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. [citation needed]. View quote
Gilles Deleuze
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm? View quote
Gloria Estefan
. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. View quote
Anne Rice
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her... View quote
Louisa May Alcott
This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then? View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down. View quote
Jamie Oliver
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. View quote
Jamie Oliver
It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. View quote
Ian McEwan
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links. (Ambrose Bierce)
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time. View quote
Michio Kushi
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. View quote
Emil Cioran
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. View quote
Emil Cioran