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"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me." »Hugh Prather
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet
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"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to." »Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
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"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids." »Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
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"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove." »Cardinal John Newman
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"George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days 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 when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely 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." »Blow
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." »Bertrand Russell
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"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left." »Hubert Humphrey
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"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." »Dr. Robert Schuller
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"Of my friends, I am the only one I have left." »Terence
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"What is left when honor is lost?" »Publilius Syrus
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"Just turn left at Greenland..." »John Lennon, When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visit
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"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have." »Michelangelo, Poem Fragment
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"Some promises are better left unsaid" »Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.
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"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." »Christopher Columbus
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." »Pablo Picasso
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"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%." »Langston Coleman
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"As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" »Amelia Earhart
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"What is left when honor is lost" »Publilius Syrus
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"War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left." »Unknown
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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." »Anne Frank
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"Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." »H. Mathews
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"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen." »Edward de Bono
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." »Oscar Levant
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"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves." »Peter McArthur
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