100 Lefty Quotes

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Famous Lefty Quotes

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. — Arthur Baer

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. — Kurt Tucholsky

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe

I'm ambidextrous, I slap ass with both hands. — Ludacris

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. — Robin Williams

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right. — Nick Cohen

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. — G. M. Trevelyan

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. — Theodore Kaczynski

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. — Yogi Berra

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch. — Jim Brown

The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. — Theodore Kaczynski

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird. — Pat Paulsen

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with. — Juan Gris

Messi does not need his right foot, though. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world! Imagine if he also used his right foot... Then we would have serious problems! — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Short Lefty Quotes

  • Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes. — Frank Rich
  • It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing... — Gudrun Ensslin
  • Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. — Jonah Goldberg
  • All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. — Walter Benjamin
  • I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either. — William Goldman
  • I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area. — Willie Stargell
  • Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth. — George Bernard Shaw
  • My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. — Parker Posey
  • I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. — Tim Robbins
  • I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives. — Jill Sobule

Leftist Quotes

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. — Walter E. Williams

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. — Joe Biden

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same. — Geert Wilders

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. — Herbert Marcuse

Many rightist movements, refraining from hyperinflammatory rhetoric or arming vigilante “brotherhoods” to combat leftists and Jews and assassinate public figures, were considerably less volatile than the Union of the Russian People. — Stephen Kotkin

I hear many people talking as if the terms liberal, progressive and leftist refer to different factions, and that one might partner with one and reject another. I have been on the left my entire adult life. I never have seen clean distinctions drawn between these things. — Bret Weinstein

The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you. — Andrew Breitbart

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. — Whitfield Diffie

Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry. — Rush Limbaugh

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. — Camille Anna Paglia

Left Hand Quotes

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena

You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands. — Jurgen Klopp

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. — Solomon

Nobel Prize winner in Economics Vernon Smith writes: Water has become a commodity whose quantity and quality is too important to be left in the hands of political authorities. — Javier Milei

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. — Ted Rall

You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives. — Anthony of Sourozh

The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra. — Frederick Lenz

So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone. — Richelle Mead

I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious. — Charles Shackleford

Left Brain Quotes

When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. — William Blake

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. — Bill Rancic

Atonement is the brain and spinal cord of Christianity. Take away the cleansing blood, and what is left to the guilty? — Charles Spurgeon

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. — Shalom Harlow

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure. — Taisen Deshimaru

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. — Rudyard Kipling

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. — Philip Guston

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. — Martha Stout

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More Lefty Quotes

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. — Rick Danko

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life. — Bill Shankly

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. — Mickey Mantle

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense. — Nick Hanauer

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race. — Pete Seeger

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed." — Philip Schuyler

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be. — Abigail Disney

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. — Josh Charles

I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control the sandbox, and I am trying to orchestrate media that isn't just out there to push the right-of-center Libertarian narrative, I'm out there to destroy the false order, the false control that the left has in controlling the mainstream media in America. — Andrew Breitbart

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. — Jill Sobule

C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines. — Michael R. Burch

Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right. — Donnie Brasco

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. — P. J. O'Rourke

Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, they're all lefties. — Eric Bolling

She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be. — Sandra Cisneros

I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles. — Chris Algieri

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty. — Jules Shear

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes. — Justin Verlander

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics. — Marc Maron

Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom. — Fraser Nelson

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good. — Serena Williams

If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing. — Brock Yates

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood. — Chris Hayes

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues. — Vince Cable

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. — Allison Pearson

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. — Robert Breault

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. — George Orwell

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. — George Orwell

But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do. — Matt Labash

The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are you kidding me “Why?” had caused her to shrug. “I’d name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they’d become Mamma’s boots. — Gena Showalter

Oh, please," I rolled my eyes, "You're a leftie, Barrons." "Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmured. — Karen Marie Moning

We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a nice long walk--ARE YOU CRAZY?" she shrieked. I was standing with the tip of the beach umbrella aimed at the driver's-side window. "What?" I said. "We have to get in. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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