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“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”

Thinking Knows Believe Art Left Art Is Don't Believe Supposed To Be Make Sense Listeners

Author:Shelby Lynne

“What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.”

Ifs World Children I Can Ends Left Cold Tomorrow Glasses What If Gray Ashes This Too Shall Pass Tomorrow Brings

Author:Bob Weir

“We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.”

Ifs Men Mind Long Stills Seems Running Age Action Young Courses Left Loses Risk Dog Easier Defeat Obligation Old Age Chiefs Young Man Lions Consolation

Author:Elmer Davis

“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?”

“I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.”

Firsts Heart Left Behinds Boys Broken Nervous Strings Typical First Love Breakdown Charismatic Bad Boy Nervous Breakdown

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.”

Christian Suffering Left Social Interest Common Particular Resources Valuable Common Good

Author:Miroslav Volf

“I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.”

Firsts Wells Remember Left Acting Changed Television News Female Life Changing Reporters Television News

Author:Lynne Reid Banks

“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.”

“I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.”

Mind Left Balance Letters Weight Bills Distracted Undone Supermarkets

Author:Sadie Jones

“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”

Thinking Writing Made Reason Kids Left Ready Husband Meals My Time Buying My Husband Grocers

Author:Sadie Jones

“Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.”

Thinking Feels Left Left Out

Author:Sadie Jones

“My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.”

Philosophy Use Left Cancer Get Up Ruins

Author:Paul Henderson

“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”

World Stills Book Soul Left Natural Powerful Fiction Struggle Rocks Importance Brave Western Celebrate Wilderness Handful Natural World Bass Fiction Writers Lyrical Brave Souls

Author:Howard Frank Mosher

“Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.”

People Firsts Left Stress Restaurants Description Items Protein Menus

Author:Barton Seaver

“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”

Thinking Knows Christian Left Loss Plans Claims Angry Cynical Transcendence Capricious Flotsam

Author:Brennan Manning

“LeBron doesn't have any weaknesses, or he doesn't have a glaring weakness. So you've got to pick up on the smaller things to try to make him uncomfortable. Like knowing which side he likes to shoot threes off the dribble, which side he likes to drive. One side he'll drive left more often, and the other side he'll drive right more often.”

Trying Left Sides Knowing Picks Weakness Likes Uncomfortable Championship Nba Championships Dribble

Author:Andre Iguodala

“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.”

Needs Humans Left Rooms Function Species Parks Expenses Genes Left Alone Zoos Rangers Biodiversity National Parks Zookeepers

Author:Donella Meadows

“The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.”

World Whole Left Mistake Stupid Whole World Versus Coke Biodiversity Pepsi Landscaping Stupid Mistake

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.”

Want Giving Littles Doe Stills Dies Left Nations Generations Blood Dying Birth Genocide Heroic Wanting To Die Armenians Armenia Armenian Genocide

Author:Anatole France

“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'”

Ifs Made House Left Sleep Walks Sea Bed Ems Mates Toms Bedroom Shut Up Rats Going To Sleep Spooky Racks Ragged

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.”

Long Hands Young Left Fire Doors Hair Fairs Chairs Locked Pale Young Women Spooky Locked Doors

Book:A Christmas Treasury

Source: A Christmas Treasury

“If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.”

Ifs World Love Giving I Can Ends Lasts Names Left Memories Wife Love You Giving Up Let Me Breaths Breathe Take Me Devoted Life And Love Forsake Let Me Go

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.”

Long Said Character Left Interesting Breaths Blow Determined Silly Tall Broads Long Ago Spoiled Lilies Interesting Characters Enchanting Flora Peonies

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.”

“... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.”

Should Feelings Earth Beautiful Left Natural Words Of Wisdom Instinct Dear Affection Productions Weed Almighty Sweetest New Feelings

Book:Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

Source: Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.”

“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Culture Left Space Air Planets Flying Aliens Lifts Monument Vacuums Runway Flying Saucers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left.”

Years Earth Moving Energy Left Millions One Thing Years Ago Killing Damage Extinction Dinosaurs Chunks Collision Jupiter Comets Asteroids

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there. ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands.”

Thinking Games Left Tired Islands Championship Nba Championships Getting Tired Nba Finals

Author:Tim Duncan

“The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.”

Littles Whole Moving Left Sides Steps Changed Legs Uniforms Championship Drank Fluid Nudge Nba Championships Nba Finals Halftime

Author:LeBron James

“My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!”

Way Giving Left Situation Excellent Wavering Giving Way Military Strategy

Author:James Keller

“I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.”

Left Party Mom Drink Europe My Mom Cups Tea Ems Iced Tea Tupperware

Author:Si Robertson

“If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'”

Ifs Has Beens Said Choices Left Stars Rocks Fields Tigers Rock Star Lockers Left Field

Author:Alice Cooper

“It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.”

Men Left Tragedy Series Continuing His Love Snaps Time Left Madhouses Shoelaces Large Things

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.”

Ifs Feels Should Believe Government Left Should Have Graves Get Up Permanent Ministers Prime Retirement Prime Minister

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.”

Self Whole Body Left Realizing Hell Beats Controlled Mechanism Lightning Organisms Pulse Shattered Living Organisms

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”

Source: Oil!

“I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.”

People Two Courses Left Interest Economic Needed Bird Ordinary Concern Wings Crash Ordinary People Eagles Bargains Right Wing Left Wing American Eagle

Author:Bill Moyers

“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”

Thinking Men Left Easy Taste Mark Nutrition Infatuation Tin Fiddle

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.”

Left Gone Idealism

Author:Paullina Simons

“The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.”

Years Firsts Turns Left Laughing Becoming Kissing Sight Property Series Etc Becoming More Nudity First Kiss Landmarks

Book:Us

Source: Us

“Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.”

Ifs Faces Left Waiting Loses Grace Seeing Doors Tomorrow Raises Beloved Champion Hopeless Your Face Abandoned Never Lose Hope

Author:Rumi

“As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.”

Way Years Firsts Ends Stories Kids Left Saws Arms Couple Years Ago Tattoo Dots Oh My Gosh

Author:Kristian Bush

“Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.”

World Life Is Left Black White Easier Defined Black And White Powerless Ambiguity

Author:Amy Plum

“If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.”

Ifs Needs Left Destiny Our Destiny Your Destiny

Book:Think Better, Live Better: A Victorious Life Begins in Your Mind

Source: Think Better, Live Better: A Victorious Life Begins in Your Mind

“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.”