The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.
As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.
Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
