Quotes with left-handed

Quotes 161 till 180 of 422.

  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Kazin If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
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  • C. Everett Koop If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Barry McGuire If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Henry Ford If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Richard A. Nelson If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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  • Brett Hull If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Walter Gropius If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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  • Karl Marx In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
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    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • André Gide In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Anita Hill In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Albert Camus In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Joan Didion In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
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    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Dooling In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • John Ray Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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