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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
, actor
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
, comedian
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
, writer
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
, writer
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
, musician
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
, writer
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
, clergyman
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
, philosopher
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
, writer
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
, philosopher
A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
, athlete
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
, psychologist
In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.
, cartoonist
Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
, musician
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
, sociologist
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
, president
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
, philosopher
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
, architect
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
, dramatist
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
, artist
I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
, actress
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
, poet
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
, clergyman
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
, comedian
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
, entertainer
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.
, politician
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.
, revolutionary
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
, musician
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
, actress
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
, diarist
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
, novelist
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
, athlete
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
, novelist
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
, politician
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
, statesman
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
, politician
I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.
, athlete
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
, first lady
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
, criminal
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
, entertainer
I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
, musician
I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
, comedian
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
, novelist
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
, journalist
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
, author
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
, critic
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
, painter
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
, author
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
, comedian
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
, musician
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
, architect
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
, author
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
, playwright
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.
, author
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
, musician
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
, musician
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
, writer
The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!
, psychologist
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
, writer
Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.
, celebrity
No voters will be left behind.
, politician
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
, celebrity
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
, architect
When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
, artist
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
, actress
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
, writer
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
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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.
, comedian
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
, historian
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
, author
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
, activist
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
, journalist
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
, clergyman
A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
, businessman
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
, poet
The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
, athlete
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
, statesman
There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.
, politician
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
, actor
When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
, politician
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.
, politician
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
, musician
What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?
, actor
I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
, philosopher
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.
, statesman
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
, journalist
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
, activist
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
, actress
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.
, president
I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.
, model
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.
, writer
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
, actor
Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.
, actress
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
, actor
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.
, actress
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
, politician
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
, writer
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
, actress
The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.
, politician
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
, lawyer
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.
, musician
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
, businessman
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
, politician
All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
, politician
It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
, journalist
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
, actor
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
, philosopher
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
, designer
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.
, director
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
, comedian
Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.
, novelist
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.'
, musician
In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.
, actor
When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.
, politician
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
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Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.
, politician
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
, actor
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
, actress
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.
, actress
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
, actor
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
, actress
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
, publisher
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
, politician
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.
, businessman
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
, writer
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.
, writer
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
, writer
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.
, author
In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.
, architect
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.
, athlete
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
, politician
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.
, politician
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
, athlete
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
, politician
When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
, politician
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
, writer
It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
, entertainer
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
, author
I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
, actress
Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
, athlete
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.
, comedian
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.
, astronaut
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
, statesman
We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
, politician
Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
, athlete
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
, writer
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.
, writer
In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.
, businesswoman
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