Quotes with left-handed

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  • Anton Chekhov A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. E. Montague A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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  • Harry Mathews A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Marilyn Monroe A smart girl leaves before she is left.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Scott Glenn Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
    Scott Glenn
    American actor (1941 - )
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  • John Huston After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
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  • Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bob Schieffer American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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