#left

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? ↗

— Joel Barlow

#could #dearth #fear #how #left

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#far right #frankly #going #i #left

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#brokenhearted #david #i #left #me

I start where the last man left off. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#last #left #man #off #start

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#dr #island #left #livingstone #march

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christian #difficult #found #ideal #left

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. ↗

— John Ciardi

#ancestors #gone #left #money #over