“I never left doo wop.”
“When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.”
“What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?”
“If the media isn’t slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?”
“Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.”
“Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.”
“The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.”
“I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.”
“I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.”
“I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.”
“When I’m in Paris, my favorite market is the Marche Raspail on the Left Bank.”
“I like it when stories are left open.”
“I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.”
“I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.”
“It’s difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That’s a job best left to critics.”
“I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.”
“Fame should be left to the film stars.”
“Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.”
“A movie like ‘The Last House On The Left’ would be very hard to do in Europe.”
“I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.”
“I left Arsenal because I wanted to develop and learn as a player and get to experience a new club.”
“No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.”
“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”
“Most Republicans call the show ‘The Left Wing.’”
“I should never have left Italy and Juve.”
“My two years at Juve were fantastic. I was just a lad when I arrived, and I was a real footballer when I left.”
“No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.”
“I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.”
“Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.”
“For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.”
“I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.”
“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.”
“When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.”
“One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.”
“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”
“’Venus,’ which is a Roger Michell film – my first scene was with Peter O’Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.”
“I worked on ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ for seven-and-a-half months, and I’m in it for two minutes – largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.”
“We can’t feel anything – all that’s left inside us is dust.”
“What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking – who will be left to act?”
“I guess professionally I’ve left my gender open to artistic interpretation.”
“We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.”
“I’ve often thought that we left the original ‘Phantom’ with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, ‘Well, why not to do a sequel to it’ at one point.”
“On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.”
“Just before I left Dundee United, I captained them for one game, although I think that was maybe to keep me there!”
“If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn’t supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn’t supposed to play it for 12 years.”
“I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.”
“I wanted to like ‘Up in the Air’ – I like Jason Reitman – but Vera Farmiga left me cold.”
“EXMNA is a nonprofit that provides support to individuals who have left Islam.”
“There were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.”
“In 2014, I left my job and launched TransTech Social Enterprises, a for-profit and nonprofit hybrid model focusing on the well-being of the trans community, not on external profits for shareholders.”
“In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.”
“That is when the Left is going to love America – when it is not America anymore.”
“The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.”
“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.”
“My generation has left the globe in a mess.”
“Is it ‘left’ to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don’t think so. I think it’s American.”
“I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of ‘Constellation.’ A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“A fiance is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
“As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.”
“It’s not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn’t leave very often.”
“Jobs are the main channel through which people share in – or are left out of – economic growth.”
“Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.”
“Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.”
“The ’80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.”
“We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.”
“That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.”
“I remember, when I first left Phoenix for L.A. I was 19, and I arrived with just $1000 to my name.”
“Yes, I have left the Pussycat Dolls.”
“My parents believed in the ideology of the Left. And being influenced by Marxism and Leninism theories, they chose Marlena as my second name.”
“When I’m on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven’t gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.”
“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
“I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.”
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
“I don’t have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it’s not realistic to daydream about it.”
“The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.”
“In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.”
“When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.”
“The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.”
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
“Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.”
“The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.”
“In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.”
“I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.”
“When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.”
“Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.”
“When I left Tampa Bay, I felt like if my career ended at that point, I’d be okay.”
“The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.”
“Left, right, populism… all are meaningless concepts.”
“The immigration flows have to be controlled. We have to know who comes into Italy. The problem shouldn’t be left to oversized, dysfunctional, nongovernmental groups.”
“Left and right in Italy, they’ve always pretended to fight.”
“I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.”
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
“Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.”
“I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.”
“At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it’s certainly my home.”
“By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.”
“That’s the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.”
“Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.”
“My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn’t want to be at school.”
“I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me.”
“Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.”
“As far as the media goes, I’m driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.”
“I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn’t get many walks.”
“Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they’re right or wrong independently if I’m right or left.”
“Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.”
“There’s so much left to achieve, there’s so much more to do, there’s so much that has not been done.”
“I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.”
“Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.”
“If I hadn’t learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I’d never have left Flin Flon.”
“For ‘Dynamite,’ Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.”
“My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.”
“It’s all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.”
“The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.”
“The times change, and if you don’t change with them, you get left behind.”
“Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.”
“I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.”
“I’ve got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we’re getting there.”
“My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with ‘Barb Wire.’”
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
“I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.”
“After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.”
“The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.”
“They look right. And you move left.”
“I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in ‘Dogville’ when she left that film.”
“Is there decency left in American politics?”
“I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.”
“Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.”
“I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I’m tapped out.”
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
“Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers’ union on the left, is always troubling.”
“It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.”
“When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.”
“I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.”
“I don’t really have any ditties left in me anymore.”
“Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?”
“When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that’s what I thought then.”
“I’ll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.”
“When I left ‘The Garry Moore Show,’ I signed a 10-year contract with CBS.”
“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.”
“After I left LA… it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.”
“When I left England and announced I was going to be an actress, the Windsors stopped speaking to me.”
“When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don’t do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.”
“All I want is the best of everything and there’s very little of that left.”
“Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren’t, you left town and made up an excuse.”
“’American Idol’ is a pop-culture staple that left the air too soon. ABC is the right home to reignite the fan base.”
“I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there’s nobody left.”
“The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.”
“Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama’s orders were intertwined, it’s unclear exactly what applies.”
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
“Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.”
“In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.”
“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
“Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.”
“In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.”
“Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.”
“We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.”
“Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.”
“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”
“I write for what’s left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.”
“With over 70 licensees, not sure if there is much left. Maybe oxygen? Ed Hardy is unique in that we have a broad range of products and something for everyone.”
“When I disappear, I will disappear; there’ll be nothing left.”
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”
“I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.”
“There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you’re left with neither. But parents are parents.”
“I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.”
“Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.”
“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
“The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
“The left has lost the common touch.”
“The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.”
“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left.”
“Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.”
“If we discovered that we only had 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.”
“I haven’t left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.”
“Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.”
“There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.”
“I think I’m the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won’t take earmarks.”
“I’m the only United States Senator in the country that I’m aware of that’s had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.”
“Of all the surgeries I’ve had, there’s not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.”
“My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.”
“I’d give my left arm for the Merrimack.”
“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
“He’s one of those managers you’d give your left leg to play for.”
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
“The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.”
“If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing… one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.”
“Today, most of the anti-Semitic bigotry is not coming from the Right. It’s coming from the Left. We have to face it.”
“Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.”
“I had a lot of time as a kid to dream. There wasn’t much else left to do.”
“No one should be left to suffer alone.”
“I’m all about creating fun, new ways to enjoy the delicious dishes left in my refrigerator.”
“The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.”
“The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.”
“Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer’s nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying ‘ugggh’ that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.”
“While I’ve won five Junos, I’ve donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.”
“The Left puts their stock in substance and lives on identity and figureheads. It will be the end of the Right to do the same.”
“I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.”
“The last time I was on a small set would’ve been probably My Left Foot.”
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.”
“The greatest danger zone a president can be in is when he is being attacked on the left and the right.”
“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.”
“I can play in a number of positions, on the left, as a No 10, or off the right.”
“If I was to play on the left, I’d rather play there if there was three in midfield.”
“I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.”
“The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.”
“Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There’s been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.”
“The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of ‘Oppression Olympics.’ Gold medal goes to the most offended.”
“The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.”
“The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice – or worse – of the progressive Left.”
“When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.”
“There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.”
“I left school on my 15th birthday.”
“My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.”
“We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.”
“The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.”
“Under Armour is not about the Left or the Right. It’s about moving forward together.”
“I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.”
“The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.”
“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”
“There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.”
“You’ll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.”
“Although I’m deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I’m unable to distinguish sounds and can’t hear anything.”
“When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they’re not thinking for themselves.”
“What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.”
“Conservatives, please. Let’s not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.”
“We can’t be politically correct – right or left – in the war on terrorism. Period.”
“Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.”
“Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left – least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.”
“I would never have left Everton if it hadn’t been Manchester United.”
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
“Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.”
“The Left is deeply invested in Obama’s presidency; they believe he’s too important, symbolically, to fail.”
“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”
“Ethno-sectarian violence is a particular concern in Iraq, as it is a cancer that continues to spread if left unchecked.”
“If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.”
“Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.”
“My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I’m from Canada. I left there at 16.”
“We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.”
“Synergy is the VCR of media right now – discredited, outdated and left behind.”
“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
“The days of family entertainment seem to have left us.”
“When resources become skimpy, human beings don’t suddenly cooperate to conserve what’s left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.”
“It wasn’t that I left acting; it’s just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.”
“What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.”
“When Jews left Judaism, they didn’t stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.”
“For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.”
“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”
“The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.”
“The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.”
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
“I hope there’s a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there’s one good scandal left in me yet.”
“So now I’m left with cigarettes, and I’m trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I’ll be done.”
“My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly.”
“Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.”
“I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.”
“I was a child actor in radio, and there’s not many of us left.”
“I wasn’t a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.”
“I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.”
“To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.”
“Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.”
“My mother left my father in their late 60s.”
“I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.”
“Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.”
“Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.”
“Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.”
“In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.”
“I’ve broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I’ve broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles – my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.”
“The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they’ve been left in the dust.”
“No voters will be left behind.”
“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
“Ford Nation never left. Ford Nation has always been there.”
“David Cameron’s approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.”
“The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.”
“I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.”
“With ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I had to leave a couple of times – I got another show, and I had a baby – so they sent me off to rehab. If I hadn’t left, they probably would’ve killed me off by now.”
“I’ve been very fortunate – not many people have left WWE and then had the chance to reinvent themselves.”
“I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.”
“Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.”
“But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.”
“The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.”
“I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.”
“The Left has been frustrated because President Obama has allowed the Republicans to run all over him.”
“There’s all kinds of envy out there on the Left.”
“They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’”
“I can play left-back; I can play in midfield or on the left or right wings.”
“I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.”
“The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.”
“The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.”
“I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening – the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us – seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.”
“You can’t say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.”
“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”
“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.”
“When I left Ajax in 1999, I travelled to Liverpool and spoke to Houllier. I was shown around Anfield and also met with the chairman and a couple of the players. I thought about it, but when Juventus came to the table, I came to the conclusion that it would be a bigger challenge to play in Italy.”
“I’d hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.”
“When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.”
“In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.”
“Those who use the term ‘alt-left’ consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists – both perceived and real.”
“When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.”
“The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.”
“Gadhafi’s vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.”
“Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.”
“We left Germany when I was 11.”
“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”
“I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.”
“Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.”
“The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.”
“I’m actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.”
“I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.”
“A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.”
“In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.”
“I left Bayern because I needed the game time.”
“With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.”
“I’m spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.”
“’Monk”s gone, and ‘House’ is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.”
“I majored in business at LSU before I left.”
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.”
“Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.”
“I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.”
“Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.”
“When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.”
“Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.”
“No poetry that I’m aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.”
“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”
“When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.”
“For the conservatives, Lula is seen as someone who constantly seeks demarcation and even rupture. For the Left, however, Lula is always seen as someone who conciliates, as he acknowledges the role of owners in improving the conditions of workers.”
“The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.”
“I left in Liverpool a lot of friends. I have a very good relationship with all of them.”
“The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.”
“And left the flushed print in a poppy there.”
“Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.”
“I had gone to work for ‘Newsweek’, left ‘Newsweek’ and went to work for ‘Vanity Fair,’ and then went back to ‘Newsweek’. I came back to ‘SI’ as a contract writer.”
“The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.”
“When everybody goes left, I’m gonna go right most of the time.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.”
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.”
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
“I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.”
“I actually prefer playing as a left winger rather than a striker, but I just want to be very clear that I’m willing to play in either position.”
“When I left Palmeiras, it was sad but happy as well, with a title.”
“When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.”
“I’m just a Trump supporter who is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and refuses to kowtow to the PC Left and their silly fads.”
“I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.”
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
“I didn’t get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.”
“I’m as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I’ve got too many ailments – left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist – in fact, the whole of the left arm.”
“I’ve only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.”
“My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.”
“I used to dream about taking the ball ’round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.”
“In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.”
“When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn’t make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.”
“Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.”
“I was an acting opera singer, and that’s one of the reasons I left opera.”
“Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.”
“Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.”
“I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.”
“I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.”
“I’m tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.”
“Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
“The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.”
“When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.”
“I was sad when Van Gaal left the national team, but I was also sad when Hiddink left.”
“At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.”
“For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we’re going to be facing into the future.”
“I left Barcelona because I believed it was very difficult to have minutes in the first team, as there are very good players.”
“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.”
“I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
“My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left!”
“We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.”
“I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.”
“The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.”
“The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.”
“Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.”
“Friends, there is no Left in American politics.”
“Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.”
“Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I’m going to go straight.”
“The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.”
“As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.”
“As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.”
“Most Americans don’t shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles – that’s the Left.”
“I’ve always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.”
“I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.”
“We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.”
“For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.”
“My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.”
“I’m not politically motivated. I used to be – passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.”
“Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me.”
“Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.”
“All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.”
“By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.”
“And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we’re left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.”
“You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.”
“I’m the last guy left. That’s what happens when you live to 84.”
“I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.”
“There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.”
“A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.”
“When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I’d had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.”
“I was distributing DVDs in Mumbai in 2006, and that is when I got my first TV show offer – ‘Left Right Left.’”
“I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.”
“No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.”
“On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.”
“When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, ‘I found somebody.’ Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box.”
“I never felt I left the stage.”
“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
“My mother did what many men do. She left.”
“I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.”
“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.”
“In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.”
“Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.”
“Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.”
“After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.”
“I’m disappointed by bands left and right, every day.”
“When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.”
“I was dyslexic and didn’t know it until I was 31. Couldn’t do math, spell, or tell left from right – left was the elbow that stuck out the window while I drove.”
“I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.”
“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”
“What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.”
“Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.”
“When I was on ‘EastEnders,’ I still had a paper route until I was 21 and left home.”
“The vividness of children is easier to see when they’re completely left to their own devices.”
“My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.”
“I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.”
“I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren’t sure I’d be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.”
“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”
“Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.”
“One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.”
“Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.”
“Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.”
“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.”
“Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn’t agree with – the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.”
“The women’s movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on ‘Playboy.’”
“I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.”
“You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.”
“When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them… And here I am, still at it.”
“I really didn’t intend to be a musician when I left Japan.”
“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there’s plenty of anger left.”
“I usually say I left puberty at 58.”
“I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.”
“Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.”
“I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.”
“When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.”
“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.”
“The chips are in production, the machines aren’t. So we’ve got a little bit of work left to do.”
“Historical science is being left in the dust.”
“More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.”
“I was born with two left feet.”
“Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.”
“Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.”
“At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants… in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.”
“I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.”
“I left my mark in the college game, and I’m definitely happy about that.”
“Let’s be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.”
“I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.”
“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.”
“The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.”
“The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.”
“I learnt so much at Coventry – I was playing as a regular at 17, most weeks. And that’s something that left me in good stead.”
“There aren’t any liberals left in New York. They’ve all been mugged by now.”
“I’ll play where the gaffer decides: in the middle, on the right, or on the left.”
“’Insidious 2′ is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.”
“Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.”
“If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.”
“We met in our hometown of St. Albans when I had just left school and Stephen was starting his Ph.D. studies in Cambridge.”
“I was two when we left Indiana, and I don’t really remember it that well.”
“In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.”
“The really good doctors out there are real-life heroes. Playing one on TV is a cheaper alternative and certainly satisfies what is left of my medical ambitions.”
“Back in 2014, I injured my left knee badly.”
“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.”
“There aren’t many shy writers left.”
“One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it’s left unaddressed.”
“There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.”
“France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.”
“For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.”
“I have nothing left but my integrity.”
“Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.”
“I’m at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.”
“The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians’ minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.”
“I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on ‘90210.’”
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.”
“All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.”
“Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I’m very much interested in emerging markets.”
“I don’t like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.”
“In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.”
“Actually ‘Soon’ has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.”
“Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.”
“The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.”
“The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called ‘same-sex marriage’ and ‘transgender’ nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.”
“I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.”
“Not one has ever left my team to go join a gang.”
“I’ve got four piercings in my left, so we’ve dubbed my right one the ‘period drama ear.’ I have to be filmed from that side when I do emotional close-ups in ‘Downton.’”
“One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.”
“I grew up in a household that was very left wing.”
“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.”
“Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.”
“Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.”
“The left and right are not religious categories. They’re often not even value categories.”
“When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.”
“And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That’s why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.”
“I have girlfriends who’ve had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don’t even get me started.”
“In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.”
“When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.”
“It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn’t coming back.”
“People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.”
“I’m politically inclined towards the left, but I don’t like to be in anyone’s gang; I’m a bit of a loose cannon.”
“They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.”
“I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.”
“When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He’d use his right hand, so I’d have to use my left.”
“Even if I was the only keeper left on the planet, I would still be trying to get better.”
“On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I’ve had both knees reconstructed.”
“I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland, and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there, and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew.”
“How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho’ slain by millions, millions left behind?”
“It’s important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left – comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant – preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.”
“We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.”
“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
“I left ‘Wired’ before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn’t experience that transition.”
“There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.”
“Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.”
“In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.”
“Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.”
“We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.”
“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.”
“People on the Left really want a single-payer system. They really want – so even the Left doesn’t want Obamacare. They want single payer, and we want a market-driven, patient-central system.”
“McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.”
“I’m from Cebu. I was one year old when I came here to Cebu from Fujian, south China. I’m Cebuano. I left for Manila when I was 22.”
“I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.”
“It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.”
“When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in ’97.”
“I’ve had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.”
“Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.”
“I’m in England so often I haven’t really left, but Americans aren’t at all like they’re misrepresented through their politicians.”
“When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway.”
“We are losing privacy at an alarming rate – we have none left.”
“I’d never left America until I was 18.”
“The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.”
“Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.”
“I left for Fiji 36 hours after we wrapped ‘Lucha Underground’ season 4. The producers of ‘Lucha Underground’ had to bend over backwards to get me wrapped out of the season to leave for ‘Survivor.’”
“I knew I wanted to do a movie, an action movie, and when I left WWE in 2011, I didn’t specifically know. I didn’t leave to do ‘Boone: The Bounty Hunter.’”
“I’d take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.”
“So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It’s an empire. There’s no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful.”
“Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.”
“Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.”
“When I left college, nobody expected much of me – and nor did I.”
“Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!”
“The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.”
“After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.”
“I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.”
“I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker’s apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.”
“New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.”
“Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.”
“When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.”
“Right now, I’m very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.”
“I had a stroke in December of ’99, and it affected my left side – my fingering side.”
“We didn’t sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.”
“By the time I left ‘Dance Moms,’ I’d made so many friendships.”
“I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.”
“I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.”
“I left London in 1992, but I’m there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.”
“More often than not, punches underwhelm – too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes.”
“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”
“Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.”
“It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.”
“McGregor was never a champion of anything. He defeated the champion and left.”
“I’ve fought in front of thousands of people and never responded to the crowd. I got there, did my job, and left.”
“There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.”
“English is the only interesting thing that’s left in my life.”
“I broke my left arm when I was 8, at a friend’s house, when we were jumping off a balcony and throwing down dunks.”
“My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I’d be left unrecognized. People remember me.”
“I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left ‘Star Wars’.”
“English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right – as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.”
“Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.”
“I’ve always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I’m coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it’s representing the Left.”
“I have no control over a film. I don’t know what will be left on the cutting floor.”
“Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.”
“I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I’m not into doing that stuff.”
“It’s vital all we oldies learn as much as we can about the Internet so we are not left behind.”
“I know Spain football very well, because I’ve always been interested in it, even after I left Spain.”
“It’s not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.”
“Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who often plays on the left side and moves between the lines.”
“When I was 16, I felt I might be left with some effeminacy because of all the dancing. I was so full of classical dance that I wanted to get away and do something else.”
“I fractured my left foot.”
“I left home to become a singer and didn’t realise when I turned comedian.”
“While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren’t in ‘XXL’ or ‘The Source.’”
“I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.”
“My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.”
“That’s what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.”
“My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian.”
“I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can’t quite shake.”
“Who cares how many miles per hour the ball traveled once it left the bat, or how high the ball traveled in degrees, or how many seconds it took to leave the ballpark?”
“My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it’s motivating.”
“Caucuses are different than primaries, and winner-take-all primaries are how Mitt Romney eventually took over Newt Gingrich in 2012 and why Rick Santorum left.”
“Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.”
“When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.”
“If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.”
“When I left Estonia, I was 16. I just wanted to leave; I wanted to see the world so much.”
“I just decided that I wasn’t going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn’t afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.”
“My makeup is usually left over from the night before.”
“I don’t live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.”
“I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.”
“I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.”
“I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera – both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.”
“I’m always very excited by something that’s a curveball or from left field.”
“I can’t envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.”
“Cristiano – he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick.”
“No Child Left Behind left a lot of kids behind.”
“’Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.”
“Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that’s a terrible approach to take. Because it isn’t true.”
“I started working at Airtight Games after I shipped ‘Left 4 Dead 2’ back in 2009.”
“I’ve got a powerful left hook and a lot of intensity. The intensity comes from the anger within.”
“You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there’s some crazy stuff going on.”
“I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the ‘Washington Post,’ I remained an admirer.”
“Don’t believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.”
“I was in the underground until I left Germany.”
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
“I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.”
“Conservative women often make the case that ‘all issues are women’s issues,’ and are sometimes derided by those on the Left when they do so.”
“Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.”
“I’m not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I’m gone, I’m gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.”
“Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind – hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass – if it did.”
“Honestly, I would never say, ‘Oh, I’ve decided not to read ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ because I’ve seen ‘Blade Runner.’ I’ve decided not to read ‘Neuromancer’ because I’ve seen ‘Blade Runner.””
“I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.”
“All the Left and the media attack dogs can dish it out, can’t they, but they sure can’t take it.”
“The Left doesn’t support blue lives.”
“Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.”
“My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I’m probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I’m here, and I’m living.”
“We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.”
“I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through ‘Spring Awakening,’ which I left in 2008.”
“I’ve discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.”
“I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.”
“I’m 37, I’m pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left – which means there’s 32 Majors still to go at.”
“I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.”
“I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.”
“It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I’d done.”
“The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.”
“I think that I don’t panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don’t have that sense of panic.”
“The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
“The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.”
“For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for the self-same reasons.”
“I nurture people’s talents because, at the end of it, that’s what they’re left with. They’re left with themselves.”
“I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.”
“We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.”
“After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.”
“I wash my hair with Pantene every other day unless I have gorgeous hair left over from an event.”
“I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.”
“Nolito is not a left winger – he is a central player.”
“I wouldn’t want to play as left forward if I normally play right-back.”
“A husband is what’s left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.”
“When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.”
“My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.”
“I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren’t going to be left in the field, so they were sold.”
“When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four – I was dying of tuberculosis.”
“I’ve loved every minute playing for Arsenal, and I hope I have left my mark on the club and fans alike.”
“I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam’s forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul – where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures – then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.”
“Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.”
“I’m going to shut Chris Weidman down in the first round. I’m gonna expose him in the second round. And I’m gonna finish him with a left kick followed by a left punch, simultaneously.”
“When I was getting overly ‘droppy,’ that’s when I was hitting shots left and right. That’s what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn’t drop the club as much.”
“I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.”
“I think ‘The Stage’ is kind of left field.”
“I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.”
“I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn’t publish my works on the mainland.”
“Wherever I’ve been, I’ve left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.”
“The only bad thing is that we didn’t win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.”
“I’ve been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.”
“Zidane told me that since Messi, he had never seen a left foot like mine. I was a little impressed, because Messi is a piece of a footballer.”
“I feel comfortable in the playmaker role, but I can play on the left, on the right, and even pivot.”
“I always try with everything I have left.”
“I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.”
“I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.”
“Anyone who doesn’t agree with the Left’s approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.”
“I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.”
“I think it’s very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.”
“I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.”
“We started out as far to the left as we could.”
“I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.”
“I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.”
“I’m a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.”
“In ’48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn’t do well at it.”
“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”
“If anything, I’m to the left of Obama.”
“I’m against the Right of money and the Left of money.”
“As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.”
“When I left HP, I thought about sitting it out for a while.”
“We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace… This is an issue that should be left to our states.”
“As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.”
“The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.”
“Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
“But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.”
“We haven’t had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.”
“The images of Earth’s delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme’s most enduring legacy.”
“My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.”
“I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.”
“I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.”
“I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.”
“I’m literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left’s perceived interests or the Right’s perceived interests.”
“Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”
“I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it – I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.”
“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.”
“I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.”
“I’m not going to run to the left of Mitch McConnell; I’m not going to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I am going to run right over the top of Mitch McConnell.”
“If it wasn’t for the Internet, I might never have left WWE. Then again, if it wasn’t for the Internet, I probably wouldn’t have been brought back.”
“When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.”
“Even now, I’m very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.”
“The so-called ‘far right’ defends the working class far more than the left does.”
“Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.”
“I’ve done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn’t on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.”
“On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.”
“I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.”
“My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine – the world owns everything else.”
“In a world of oversharing, we don’t want to be unknown or unseen. We don’t want to be left out.”
“It’s not that I don’t get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.”
“The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.”
“The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.”
“’Wayward Pines’ has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.”
“Hearing Mr. Trump in person, I finally understood why millions of voters, especially voters who have been ignored and left behind in this economy, connect with him.”
“Christians and religious individuals are quickly demonized and not tolerated by the dogmatic left if their views differ.”
“Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you’re no richer.”
“My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.”
“I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.”
“If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.”
“I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a ‘Harry Potter’ book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what’s been left out.”
“Good schools should be left alone.”
“ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.”
“I’d fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.”
“Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.”
“After I left ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I’d done on my series, and I was really glad I didn’t take it.”
“Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.”
“Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.”
“When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.”
“I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.”
“The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.”
“The lack of closure in an unsolved case seems to have a sharpening effect on those left behind; the details remain vivid to them even years later, possibly because they’ve gone over them looking for answers so many times.”
“Music is too important to be left to professionals.”
“I haven’t had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven’t left it.”
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
“I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.”
“I left Indiana, and I ain’t been back since. I’ve been doing comedy and paying my bills.”
“People on the Left get a pass when it comes to condemning white Americans.”
“The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.”
“The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.”
“The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.”
“In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.”
“For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.”
“When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn’t replaced him; Phil’s done a different thing.”
“I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.”
“The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.”
“A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.”
“In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one – and in particular to pander to Islam – the Left wants to shut down Christianity.”
“The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left – the stranglehold that it has on culture.”
“It’s a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.”
“So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.”
“Left Eye is a a rare gem.”
“When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.”
“Since I left the Premier League the first time, I wanted to come back.”
“We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.”
“Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that… the reader is left with an echo of: ‘How much of this was from me?’”
“Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They’ve been rendered spineless by snarkiness – not least on Twitter.”
“I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven’t lived in a small town since.”
“The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.”
“When the Left agitates over government policies, it’s considered righteous anger. When the Right – and much of the center – agitate, it’s painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.”
“From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of ‘creating chaos:’ chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.”
“Once you sell yourself, it’s over. You’ve got nothing left.”
“If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That’s my job.”
“I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That’s when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.”
“The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.”
“The small Satan left and the great Satan came.”
“My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.”
“BJP was a strong force before I differed and left.”
“I left ‘Octomom.’ I went back to my life as a counselor.”
“I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.”
“In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.”
“Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.”
“Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.”
“I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn’t get tenure at a research university.”
“I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn’t have any.”
“I was so worried when I left ‘GH:’ so scared I’d never work again.”
“We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing left to explore on Earth.”
“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.”
“The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.”
“For a person of my sensibility, you’re only left with the Democratic party.”
“There is no terra incognito left.”
“My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.”
“You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.”
“Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.”
“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But ’cause I left school at 15, I didn’t know what a noun was, still don’t.”
“I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.”
“Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.”
“I’m a little bit to the left of things anyway.”
“I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.”
“In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.”
“I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‘array’ as far as political purposes were concerned.”
“I’ve sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there – little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.”
“I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.”
“I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.”
“What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”
“When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.”
“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.”
“The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.”
“We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.”
“As board members, we only meet infrequently and are not as engaged with the front line, necessarily. The first thing I did as CEO was I left this board room.”
“The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.”
“I’m two-footed. I prefer to dribble with the left and shoot with the right.”
“Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.”
“After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He’s still here in the United States.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“I left school just shy of 17: I’d started going into touring and that situation.”
“My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.”
“I’m glad I’m Southern. I’m the Southerner who’s very Southern in that she left to move to New York.”
“While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.”
“I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.”
“Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.”
“Publicity’s a cancer. It eats out a man – till there’s nothing but a shell left.”
“Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.”
“I just want to play, whether it’s on the right or the left. I give 100 per cent all the time.”
“While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.”
“There are very few fishermen left today.”
“I will not watch a whale die. I’ve not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.”
“A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.”
“The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.”
“The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind of attacks can come from the far right, the far left, racists of every stripe, as well as jihadists.”
“Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience – I go up and out, right, left and back.”
“One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.”
“The Left have always preferred the state to the family.”
“As historians write more and more histories, it’s a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.”
“Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.”
“Right after I left drama school, I had a job.”
“Contrarian thinking doesn’t make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.”
“In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.”
“In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: ‘It’s OK – we can just do instrumentals.’”
“A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.”
“There are a lot of undecideds in this country that are hopefully right of center, not left of center.”
“Certainly, when I’d left Iraq back in 2008, I’d been proud of my service, but whether we’d been successful or not was still an open question.”
“I don’t use any of the terminology like ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing.’ I use language like ‘godly’ and ‘holiness.’”
“The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.”
“Back then, I couldn’t have left a poem a year and gone back to it.”
“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.”
“I’ve been very fortunate that I’ve worked since I left drama school in 1976.”
“We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.”
“Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.”
“Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.”
“For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?”
“I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master’s in Business. I left that to work in the public sector.”
“YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.”
“Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.”
“We must stand firm against the Left’s nationalisation obsession.”
“What is left when honor is lost?”
“The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.’”
“There ain’t nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.”
“When I wrote ‘Fight Song,’ I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.”
“I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I’m used to going against the grain.”
“In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out.”
“Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.”
“Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.”
“My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money’s left in communities.”
“America has much greatness left in her.”
“I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they’ve maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.”
“The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.”
“I left home because I was hungry.”
“The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.”
“That ‘Super Mario’ movie from the 1990s… left a really bad taste in the mouth of our developers.”
“The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.”
“Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.”
“When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.”
“The size of the resource prize has to be large to support the risked capital that has to be put in place. The Arctic is one of the few places left where we believe those opportunities exist.”
“On my left forearm, I’ve got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials ‘E’ and ‘G’ for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.”
“I think, most definitely, my style has been changing throughout the years, and that’s because of the injuries that I’ve had, the multiple surgeries on my left knee.”
“By the time I left ESPN in 2003, ‘SportsCenter’ had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.”
“In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous – though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.”
“The Left sees no place for differing opinions.”
“Most Republicans in California are tired of fighting the one-party rule from the Left and have given up on state politics.”
“One minute you’re starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it’s career over. I was 20.”
“Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.”
“I think you can have a Left that isn’t culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.”
“I’ll play first, third, left. I’ll play anywhere – except Philadelphia.”
“I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.”
“Since I left basketball, and my wife, it’s been a glorious feast of lovemaking.”
“And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it’s bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.”
“Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.”
“I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.”
“I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn’t really escape, but I needed to go away.”
“I’ve got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.”
“’Borderlands’ came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.”
“If you start very far to the left, it’s harder to get to the middle.”
“I came into ECW in Philadelphia in 1996 and left in 2001 – a much bigger, worldwide star than I arrived – and I thank ECW for that.”
“I’m not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.”
“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
“I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.”
“Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.”
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
“Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.”
“You have to go with the times. You’re going to get left behind if you don’t.”
“Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.”
“The early giants of modern dance – Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis – barely left traces of their art.”
“Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.”
“I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.”
“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”
“While there’s time left, I want to do different kinds of things.”
“Do I have the mental strength? I left home when I was 13 years old.”
“The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.”
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
“The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion – but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.”
“I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.”
“The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.”
“I’m fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican – there just aren’t many of us left.”
“If we look conservative, it’s because the other guys are so far to the left.”
“My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of ‘raises left eyebrow’ and ‘raises right eyebrow.’”
“After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, ‘Masquerade,’ where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.”
“The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.”
“I can do a lot of stuff, score goals with my left, right, and head.”
“I’m afraid they’ve left their legs at home.”
“We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It’s not helpful. It’s destructive. It’s harmful. So, I don’t like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.”
“I can’t be left unsupervised.”
“Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I’ll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.”
“When I left ‘Downton Abbey,’ it hadn’t yet taken off and become the phenomenon that it is, to this day. That all happened after I left. But, it was fabulous to be a part of it and to be a part of the cast. We had an absolute ball!”
“I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.”
“I didn’t appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.”
“You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.”
“I started using sunglasses in Alabama. I was going to do a show with Patsy Cline and Bobby Vee, and I left my clear glasses on the plane. I only had the sunshades, and I was quite embarrassed to go onstage with them, but I did it.”
“For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.”
“I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.”
“I’m entirely uneducated. I went to public school – public in the American sense – a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.”
“I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.”
“Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.”
“A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.”
“Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn’t matter. It’s whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.”
“Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.”
“I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.”
“’Whole Women’s Health’ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.”
“I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.”
“We’ve all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don’t have a second left to spare.”
“On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.”
“In the exodus out of Iraq, we’re seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.”
“I had six surgeries on my left toe and another six on the right toe.”
“The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.”
“Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.”
“The PUP came into office in 1998 when the public debt of Belize was over $600 million and the economy was at a standstill. When we left office in 2008, ten years later, the debt was higher, but a lot was accomplished: the economy was transformed and the social and physical infrastructure of the country significantly upgraded.”
“I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.”
“I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in ’08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.”
“I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I’m a bit of a muddle.”
“My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.”
“When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.”
“I can play in the centre or on the wing, behind one or two strikers, on the left or the right.”
“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.”
“When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.”
“I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I’ve lived more in Europe than Africa.”
“Most good art is left wing. It’s a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.”
“I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it’s my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.”
“Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.”
“I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have.”
“I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.”
“We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.”
“I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.”
“Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters.”
“A motion-sensing controller that you hold with both hands is completely different from one that you can use with either your right or left hand.”
“I did a bunch of commercial voiceovers in Chicago before I left. For Balducci’s pizza, I did a whole series. Actually I was making a good living with voiceover before I left.”
“When I left WWE, I had surgery on my foot. I had drop foot, where my foot was totally paralyzed. I had a tendon transfer and got nine screws in my foot.”
“I’m no slouch, but when comparing LeBron’s game, I’m usually left out.”
“I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.”
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt.”
“When people leave cults, they don’t know that they left a cult.”
“I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn’t have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.”
“I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.”
“Right-wing, pivot, centre-back, full-back, right, left. I’ve never felt uncomfortable anywhere.”
“I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced.”
“A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.”
“The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists’ personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.”
“I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.”
“They understood why I left ER. It wasn’t just about a guy.”
“Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.”
“I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.”
“I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.”
“In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.”
“If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn’t it?”
“I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.”
“I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.”
“Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.”
“I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.”
“I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.”
“When I took a couple of years to do the documentaries after I left ‘American Morning’ – what was I gone for, five years? – I didn’t feel that I was floating under the radar.”
“In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.”
“I left school at 15, didn’t pick up my GCSEs, didn’t do A-levels, didn’t go to uni.”
“And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.”
“When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but ‘Golden Boy’ is such a New York show.”
“We’ve all got to come together, and we’ve got to protect what’s left of our ancient forests on this planet.”
“I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and returned rarely.”
“Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.”
“The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”
“I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.”
“Did I have a mis-spent youth? I suppose I did in that I left school early without any qualifications, having bunked off a few times for tournaments.”
“I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.”
“The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.”
“I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It’s unsustainable.”
“Consumers, when they’ve only got a couple of quid left in their pockets, are choosy about how they want to spend it.”
“I’ve been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don’t think I’ve ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I’ve ever hit.”
“What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.”
“The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn’t all that high.”
“From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations – and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn’t matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.”
“The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.”
“I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.”
“I watched Janis one time – we opened for her – and that’s the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.”
“I just have so few sunrises left, and I want to be happy.”
“Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.”
“There’s more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler’s fascism but won’t examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.”
“I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.”
“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
“I’m not right wing, I’m not left wing. I love my country.”
“If we keep on destroying fish, there won’t be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It’s as simple as that.”
“After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it’ll just be fluent.”
“I juice beetroots, carrots, celery, pineapples, or anything in my fridge that’s left over. I just chuck it all in – it’s very good for cleansing your system.”
“It’s remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”
“The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.”
“Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.”
“Of my friends I am the only one left.”
“North Carolina is not going to be left behind.”
“I left India for U.S. with Rs 2,000 only in hand, where I have gone through some very difficult times before entering into wrestling.”
“In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.”
“For years, I thought I simply didn’t dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn’t have.”
“After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.”
“When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day.”
“Since I left Atleti, I have improved my game with my feet considerably, and I have matured a lot as a person.”
“When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare’s sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare’s sonnets.”
“You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.”
“I start where the last man left off.”
“Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.”
“ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.”
“Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.”
“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.”
“Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
“And so um, I knew that I really didn’t want to be a priest and didn’t want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.”
“When a club has â¬200m left on its transfer budget in the final days of the transfer period, why shouldn’t they make a higher bid when their initial â¬70m bid has been rejected?”
“Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.”
“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
“I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.”
“When President Bush left office, the deficit was approximately $500 billion. It is now approximately now $1.5 trillion. In other words, President Obama has essentially tripled the deficit.”
“I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.”
“I’ve had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I’ve been through the grinder.”
“I’m not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.”
“Most of who’s left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.”
“Before the surge started, frankly, after I left Iraq towards the end of 2006, I was worried that we were losing the war. But after the surge, I felt that we succeeded.”
“If I hadn’t left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.”
“The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of ‘false consciousness’ seriously.”
“The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.”
“The Left hates United States’ sovereignty, capitalism, Christianity, and the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. To the Left, anything that helps undermine those institutions is an ally, not an enemy.”
“The military is no place for the left’s latest social experiment.”
“You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.”
“Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.”
“I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They’re just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It’s kind of untouched, it’s not Americanized.”
“I just want to be left alone.”
“Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.”
“So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.”
“I use the low-spinning Pro V1 left dot. I mark it with the logo for the Tony Finau Foundation.”
“I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.”
“The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.”
“My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.”
“What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.”
“Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.”
“All of the fillers I had in the past have now dissolved – apart from my lip fillers. I left them in, and they are something I have to maintain.”
“We never left a set until we’d trashed it.”
“I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“I really wasn’t equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I’ve always had the highest regard for the craft. I’ve always felt it was work.”
“All I want is to be left alone to write my books.”
“I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.”
“What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.”
“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”
“I turn left for a living.”
“My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.”
“I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.”
“No Indian wants their sports persons to get left behind or any particular sports to get left behind.”
“The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.”
“From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.”
“Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.”
“Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.”
“It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.”
“Lou Gorman gave my number to a non-roster player the year after I left.”
“I haven’t been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.”
“My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon’s Kindle app for Apple products, the company’s iBooks doesn’t remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.”
“My left brain has gradually ‘eaten’ the right-brain capabilities away.”
“It wasn’t until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.”
“I like to be left alone when I’m not working.”
“When I left for Qatar, I knew, of course, that this could have an impact on my career as an international.”
“We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.”
“Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.”
“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”
“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.”
“Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can’t afford to double-down on trickle-down.”
“I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.”
“Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me.”
“When I worked on ‘The Daily Show,’ we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.”
“The Left doesn’t understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.”
“So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.”
“I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.”
“I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.”
“If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn’t have happened.”
“The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.”
“I would put myself towards left of center.”
“I left home at 17 and I’ve been on the road ever since.”
“Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.”
“We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.”
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