Left Quotes

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready."

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy !

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head;

this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.

I start where the last man left off.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

The best things in life are left unseen. Thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, laugh

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force;

like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest. It's about who came, and never left your side.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow aftter your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.