Top 1200 Left-Wing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.

'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White House.

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

I always messed around a little bit growing up, just shooting with my left hand, but now I'm actually getting real work in with my left hand. I think it's going to be a big help.

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.

I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age.

I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you.

I think off the wing and just behind the striker are probably the two go-to positions, so to speak. I'm comfortable with playing both.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

I've come from a fantastic, working class area and to actually have the fortune to be given that opportunity to get out of that has never left me. I was determined from the first day I left to make the most of it and that will never stop.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

The left does not like self-reliance and individuality and the disparities in wealth and income that result. So the left has targeted capitalism forever on the pretext that it's unfair, that it's unequal, that it is mean-spirited, that it is white patriarchal Christianity - and all of these horrible, rotten things.

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.

I can play left-back; I can play in midfield or on the left or right wings.

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Obviously my strength is going up and down the wing - that's what has given me the opportunity to play for the national team and at Barcelona.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

All my life, I've been the rebel in the X-wing fighter, and then one morning, I woke up, and I was on board the Death Star.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.

There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!

When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.