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Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. (Samuel Adams)
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. View quote
Anthony Burgess
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. View quote
Willa Cather
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. View quote
Robert Browning
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth. View quote
Sandra Bernhard
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. View quote
Cicely Tyson
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. View quote
Jill Bolte Taylor
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. (Karen Armstrong)
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
William Cowper
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. View quote
William Cowper
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (Agatha Christie)
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. View quote
Charles Kingsley
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time. View quote
E. B. White
I leave before being left. I decide. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few. View quote
William Blake