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“I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.”

Thinking Left Wife Bottom My Wife

Author:Brian Welch

“When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up.”

Inspirational Left Bottom Softball Atlantis

Author:Tim Walters

“The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.”

Ifs Should Littles Lying Left Wish Wonder Bottom Data Lasting Confession Pauses Strict Empiricism Opaque

Book:Essays in Philosophy

Source: Essays in Philosophy

“The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.”

Children Fighting Found Left Authority Bottom Defeat Scar Irrational Neurosis

Book:Man for Himself

Source: Man for Himself

“No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.”

Matter Left Water Bottom Washing Teaspoons

Book:The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography

Source: The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography

“Saw is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... Thats the way Saw plays out.”

Way Firsts Play Bigs Together Left Saws Bottom Corners Finding Yourself Puzzles Jigsaw Jigsaw Puzzles

Author:Tobin Bell

“A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.”

Men Doe Suffering Left Economy Function Bottom Genuine Liberalism Goodbye Capitalist Competing Irrelevant Microcosm Capitalist Economy

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.”

People Littles Seems Left Common Bottom Throwing Strain Tubes Toothpaste Throwing Away

Author:Robert Benchley

“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.”

Mind Young Girl Left White Bottom Lovely Grass Carpe Diem Barrels Rust Carpe Clovers

Book:In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007

Source: In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007

“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.”

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage