When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you’re holding...

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, ‘This is skewed too far to the left,’ or ‘The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities,...

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

Why you?- (…) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I’d wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you’d left me all over again.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don’t have much time left.

Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.

I’m not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I’m gone, I’m gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I...

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells...

Actually, because I’m so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That’s how hard I play,...

Gadhafi’s vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

I think when you’re 10 years old, it’s too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

…his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not...

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

After I left LA… it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that’s what I thought then.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended...

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the...

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the...

Actors can’t retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling – don’t you?

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can’t relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me.

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn’t stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run...

When people expect me to go right, I’ll go left. I’m unpredictable.

In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there’s less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it – and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have...

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I’ll do with my left.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

You can’t teach talent. You can’t put in what God left out – but you can teach confidence.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

You’re gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else,...

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your...