Left Quotes - page 6

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Ernest Dimnet)
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. View quote
Helen Rowland
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. View quote
Lorraine Hansberry
It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand. View quote
Plautus
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. View quote
Patrick Murray
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America. (Eric Hoffer)
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Heat, ma'am' I said 'it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. View quote
Sydney Smith
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf. View quote
John Townsend
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. View quote
Henry Kissinger
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him. View quote
William Shakespeare
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. (Mark Twain)
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. View quote
Mark Twain
I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. View quote
Christopher Columbus
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. View quote
Fritz Sauckel