Left Quotes - Page 11

• If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fighting, United States, Opinion

  Letter to Wallace Grange, digicoll.library.wisc.edu. January 03, 1948.

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• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Wings, Gone, Graveyard

  "Pornography, Men Possessing Women". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1979.

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• Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

  Elliot Perlman

  Writing, Holocaust, Aspiration

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• So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Mercy Of God, Self

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• People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Prayer, People, Miracle

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• I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

  Jessie J

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  Felix Dennis

  Home, Singers, Young

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

  Felix Dennis

  Glorious, Persons

  "'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'". Interview with William Leith, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Wall, Fighting, Animal

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• The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Men

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fashion, Attitude, Character

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• Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.

  Norman Mailer

  Summer, Winter, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

  Tori Amos

  Rain, Clouds, Years

  Song: Silent All These Years, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

  Alfred Austin

  Rain, Hazards, Sunny

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

  David Sedaris

  Love, Sorry, Rose

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• A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Men, Jail

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Saving, Lost

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.30

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• That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.

  Pamela Anderson

  Couple, Ipods, Musician

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Art, Men

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• Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Suits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.266, Counterpoint

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• I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Distance, Dark, Past

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• The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.

  Freeman Dyson

  Christian, Europe, Ideas

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.

  Hank Aaron

  Country, Feet, Long

  "40 years later, Hank Aaron's grace a beauty to behold". www.usatoday.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

  Hank Aaron

  Louisville, Use, Records

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.18, Harper Collins

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