Left Quotes - Page 7

• Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Would Be, Littles, Plagiarism

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• We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Blessing, Ministry

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• I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

  Patti Davis

  Childhood, Would Be, Clean

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• One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

  Thomas Frank

  Writing, Mirrors, Principles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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• If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

  Nelson Goodman

  Understanding, Given, Clear

  Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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• It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Desire, Matter, Wanting More

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Condolences, Hurricanes

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• I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Race, People

  "Empty, ruined and desperate" by Julian Borger, Duncan Campbell and Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2005.

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Left Hand, Philanthropy

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• Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

  Stuart Kauffman

  Numbers, Eight, Pairs

  Stuart Kauffman (1996). “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Commitment, Compassion

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

  Joseph Muscat

  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, Cutting, Doctors

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• The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

  Alfonso Soriano

  Team, Trying, Comfort

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• Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Brain, Jargon, Seems

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• I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

  Ariel Pink

  Iphone, Giving, Trying

  Song: Picture Me Gone, Album: Pom Pom, 2014

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• I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

  Jonathan Adler

  Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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• There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

  Mark Jackson

  Children, School, Kids

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• That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Religious, Dark

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

  Mu Xin

  Far Away, China, Ask Me

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• When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

  Robert Bateman

  Flower, Years, America

  "ROBERT BATEMAN: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. October 15, 2012.

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• It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Dark

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

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• They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Summer, Art

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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