Quotes with left-wing

Quotes 241 till 260 of 419.

  • Theodore Roosevelt One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Jonathan Swift One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Newhart One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Horace One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Barbara Amiel Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Jean Paul Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bhagat Singh Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Matthew Arnold Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Brendan Myers Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
    Source: 9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Barr People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
    Source: Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Bill Hicks People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Russell Baker People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Bruce Hornsby People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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