Best left & left-alone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Moments Reading Left Very Good Bus Tubes Left Alone

Author:Samuel West

“When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.”

Hands Kids Jobs Guy Left Basketball Glad Sane Solitary Good Job Left Alone

Author:Tim Duncan

“Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.”

Wells Children Left Deals Loneliness Well Being Left Alone Frail Youngest Child

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.”

Light Left Flower Solitude Faded Left Alone Banquets

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.”

Art Jobs Left Circumstances Standards Ordinary Disappear Left Alone

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.”

Way Government Wanted Left Expenses Left Alone

Author:Crazy Horse

“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.”

Giving Writing Children Whole Motivational Together Mother Left Cutting Poet Birth Bigger Meaningful Arise Islands Dancer Meaningless Isolated Not Alone Left Alone

Author:Rajneesh

“Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.”

Ifs Men Way Done Left Rooms Wonder Heard Arms Letting Go Rounds Shoulders Intimate Hug Polite Dressings Hierarchy Left Alone Sideways Dressing Rooms

Author:Antony Sher

“I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.”

Want Bigs Father Left Parent Demand Big Things Left Alone Best Gift

Author:Terry Crews

“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.”

Way Doe Art Whole Pain Together Left Difficult Consciousness Taken Expression Shapes Unique Sentences Territory Propositions Left Alone Left Out Together Again Incomprehension

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.”

Ifs Writing Mind Left Unconscious Left Alone Unconscious Mind

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Persons Joy Desire Left One Thing Convince Not Alone Left Alone Devastation Fear Of Being Alone

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.”

Thinking Mind Reading Left Habit Curious Dread Bores Left Alone

Book:Fireside Travels

Source: Fireside Travels

“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”

People Made Country Wanted America Left Felt Ease Thrive Left Alone

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.”

People Feels Left My Own Village Find Me Gallery Left Alone Small Villages

Author:Catherine Stock

“There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.”

People Ifs Soul Spirit Left Defense My Soul Behave Ignored Crushed Drains Left Alone

Author:John S. Hall

“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?”

Hands Left Space Planets Needed Balance Edges Surface Adam Abyss Left Alone

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.”

People Trying Doe Seems Beautiful Values Left Social Sports Sea Aspect Rivers Fishes Accomplish Genuine Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Solitary Surroundings Crowded Left Alone Contemplative Trout

Author:John Gierach

“I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.”

People Believe Kind Home Care Guy Left Ought Who You Are Don't Care Who I Am I Don't Care Hanging Out Leaving Me Me Alone Own Business Left Alone Leave Me Alone Who Your Friends Are

Author:Rand Paul

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.”

Source: I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose

“Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.”

Wanted Left Hair Including Left Alone

Author:Alice Walker

“Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.”

Left Numbers Prosperity Storm Prosperous Left Alone Many Friends

Author:Ovid

“Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

Joy Poetry Left Magic Mankind Poetry Is Left Alone

Book:Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

Source: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.”

World Persons Whole Film Left Stars Fame Normal Contrast Left Alone Film Stars

Book:A Mouse is Born

Source: A Mouse is Born

“It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.”

Games Left Watches Bunch Flags Left Alone

Author:Ray Lewis

“To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”

World Mind Heart Young Spirit Left Watches Teach Sadness Wide Left Alone Affectionate

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.”

Want Persons Left Hundred Stronger Activism Want Something Left Alone Truism That One Person

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.”

Should Persons Book Reading Left Novel Reader Book Reading Left Alone

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.”

Ifs Children Left Tree Fruit Left Alone

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.”

“Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.”

Ifs Left Nice Left Alone Always Happy

Author:Maximilian Schell

“I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.”

Men Made Left Causes Left Alone

Author:Charles Bukowski

“All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.”

“He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.”

People Want Firsts Government Left President Left Alone

Author:Will Rogers

“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

“For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.”

Looks Littles Today Christian Culture Left Church Religious Members Institutions Impact Left Alone Benign Citizenry Venom Docile Placid

Author:Kay Coles James

“There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.”

Should Light Science Left Knowledge Doctors Left Alone

Author:Griffin Jay

“The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.”

Looks May Helping Left Stars Animal Defeated Alas Pardon Left Alone

Author:W. H. Auden

“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...”

“A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.”

Ifs Knows Kids Dies Left Parent Rap Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Hostility Left Alone

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.”

Wells Running Left Trouble Involved Directors Casts Left Alone Good Directors Makeovers

Author:Christopher Walken

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