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In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. (Germaine Greer)
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
Kirk Douglas
Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
James Thurber
There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.
Parmenides
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
Charlotte Brontë
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Marcus Aurelius
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Cicero
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. (O. Henry)
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The stars are dead the animals will not look; We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and; History to the defeated; May say Alas but cannot help or pardon.
W. H. Auden
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn`t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don`t regret it.
Kim Wilde
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
Samuel Johnson
To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.
Samuel Johnson
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. (Ben Jonson)
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.
Steven Tyler
Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".
Kris Kristofferson
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Timothy Leary