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I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic…

The Left Hand of Darkness

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The Left Hand of Darkness

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

The Left Hand of God

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

At Last There Is Nothing Left To Say

Like most so-called debates between liberals and conservatives, they weren’t interested in listening or responding to each other. They were solely concerned with making sound bites.

SuperMale's Gone and Left Us

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

I’d like to spend money on a wallet, but if I spent money on a wallet, I’d have none left over to fill it with. At least my heart is full of love, even though I left it in a politician’s pocket.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.

Where You Left Me

When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.

Hugh Masekela

When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

Paget Brewster

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

Kurt Cobain

I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days, like a salt lake. Or so he said.' ('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Kunal Sen

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, A...

Ben Shapiro

Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked. “No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.

Courtney Milan - The Suffragette Scandal

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned.

Israelmore Ayivor

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James A. Baldwin

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Dennis Prager

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet...

Barney Frank