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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about bad luck, bad, things

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no...

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Quote by Sean Connery about school

Bret, the way he left WWF, wasn't like he was the Ultimate Warrior come to the WWF for a few months and then he just left, he really wasn't rooted in the company.

Quote by Owen Hart about companies

When a conductor gives students letters for parents, 15% will be left on music stands, 25% will be inside the music, 15% will rot in instrument cases, 15% will be left in lockers, 15% will crawl under the student's bed, and 15% of the parents will...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents, music

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about mistery, revelation, character, life

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding...

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

Quote by Hank Aaron

The task of organizing and operating a huge and complex...

The task of organizing and operating a huge and complex educational machinery has left us scant leisure for calm reflection.

Quote by Irving Babbitt

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

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

Quote by Paula Abdul about nation, rightness, people

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a...

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.

Quote by Randy Bachman about numbers, time

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the...

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Quote by Kathy Acker about rightness, good, good luck

In Russia, we didn't have to pay for coaching. Here, in America, I left Galina and I went back to my old coach, Valentin Nikolayev, because he was my coach who prepared me for the 1994 Olympics.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about old, olderness

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of...

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Quote by Russell Baker about pleasure, people, things

People don't have fortunes left them in that style...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about style, money, man, work, world, people

She just came out of left field because Altman really didn't know who Kitty Potter was. And I don't think he even knew who she was at the end of the shoot. I sure as hell didn't know who she was, and I really did not know what this movie was about.

Quote by Kim Basinger about hell, end

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Quote by Maria Callas about end, home, house, imagination, life

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Quote by Bette Davis

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war...

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Quote by Agatha Christie about war, nothing

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your...

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Quote by Winston Churchill about old, olderness, world

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I...

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Quote by Princess Diana about man, people

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of...

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about unhappiness, things, world

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