Left Out Quotes

• A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Letter to H. H. Rogers, 26 - 28 Apr. 1897

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• So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

  George Jung

  Summer, Jesus, Horse

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• Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

  Kay Arthur

  Lonely, Hurt, Loneliness

  Kay Arthur (1995). “My Savior, My Friend: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mean, People, Left

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Fiction, Dull

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• I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

  Helen Garner

  Lonely, Real, Somewhere Else

  Helen Garner (2011). “Monkey Grip”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Men And Women, Left

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  W. H. Auden

  Rain, Cake, Complaining

  Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden (1981). Leonard L. Levinson, in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971), quotes this comment as being said about Auden by someone else.

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• Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

  Hillary Clinton

  Vulnerable, Left, Marginalized

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• I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Opportunity, Voice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

  Vin Scully

  Thinking, Lovely, Sitting

  Source: www.dailynews.com

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• This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Heart, Reality

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• I know what it's like to be left out... I certainly went through a period of time where I got made fun of and people were so mean to me, so I can really relate to that.

  Ashley Benson

  Fun, Mean, People

  "Pretty Little Liars: Will Hanna and Lucas's Relationship Go from Friendly to Flirty?". Interview with Robyn Ross, www.tvguide.com. August 3, 2010.

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• In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Order, Different

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• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Tragedy, Denmark

  The Talisman introduction (1825). Source of the expression "Hamlet without the Prince." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes that W. J. Parke, in Musical Memories (1830), "gives a similar anecdote from 1787."

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• People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired by my man but not by his previous position. I'm more inspired by people that are left out by society.

  Carla Bruni

  Song, Men, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

  Willa Cather

  Powerful, Past, Long

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Opportunity, Giving, Sunlight

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.298, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.

  Charles Dance

  Jobs, Purpose, Actors

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: "I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

  John Lewis

  Country, Distance, Native American

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

  Margery Allingham

  Writing, Sound, Four

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• If love is universal, no one can be left out.

  Deepak Chopra

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2014

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• Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

  Agnes Denes

  Likes, Fit, Precedent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Can I tell you what I want? I want to stop wanting things I can’t have. I want to stop falling for jerks I don’t need. And I want to stop feeling like an f/ing gooey butter cake somebody left out in the rain.

  Kate Klise

  Rain, Fall, Cake

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• Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

  Steve Case

  Years, People, Becoming

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