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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘alone’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on ‘The Simpsons,’ for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I’m doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I’ll stay after class for another hour or…
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It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. – Greta Scacchi
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate…
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas
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European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together. – John Bruton
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There’s great sadness and life doesn’t work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there’s no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there’s no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it. – Mike…
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don’t want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. – James Ellroy
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. – Sam Houston
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. – Graham Coxon
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. – Augusten Burroughs
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When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dracula’ on the big screen. I just fell in love with them. – George A. Romero
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Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured. – Jasmine Guy
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – William Shenstone
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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. – Emil Zatopek
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone. – Tom Petty
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It is said that man doesn’t live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. – John McCarthy
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald’s is admitting a kind of defeat. – Jonathan Carroll
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I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and…
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I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not. – Brooke Shields
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I’ve been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don’t have much interest in you. I’m still married, still working, still happy. – Matt Damon
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. – Charles de Secondat
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Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: ‘If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.’ I’d like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it,…
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If you’re truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there’s a family bond that you have. In fact, I’ve talked about this with therapists, especially if you’re talking about a relationship, because when you’re with somebody, you’re going to your family, and she’s alone. – Gary Allan
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. – Diana Wynne Jones
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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. – William Gurnall
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Very few people are original. There’s very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. – Susan Powter
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. – Don DeLillo
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. – Florence King
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. – Kofi Annan
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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. – Terry Goodkind
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. – John Clayton
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You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. – Liev Schreiber
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I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame? – Patti LaBelle
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I don’t know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment. – Elizabeth Hurley
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Now, on nights that I can’t sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. – Namie Amuro
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Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone. – Jimmy Durante
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I don’t wanna hear nobody complain that they’re getting paid all this money and people won’t leave them alone. It’s part of it. – Mark Wahlberg
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It’s very hard to write a song alone. It’s only by jamming that you can get a song together. – Maurice Gibb
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. – Edie Falco
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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. – John Webster
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I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Other nations use ‘force’ we Britons alone use ‘Might’. – Evelyn Waugh
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If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. – Jeffrey Eugenides
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Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone. – Anna Held
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Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. – Grover Norquist
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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively. – Josie Maran
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Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. – Janet Napolitano
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. – Walter Annenberg
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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. – Michael Collins
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With ‘Twilight,’ you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With ‘Penoza,’ we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there’s a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. – Melissa Rosenberg
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc
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For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book. – Laurell K. Hamilton
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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it. – Dirk Benedict
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. – Malcolm Turnbull
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to help you. – Octavia Butler
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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can’t sustain it. – Colin Quinn
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By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians. – Kevin Rudd
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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn’t know that at first. – Steve Lacy
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It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask. – Katherine Mansfield
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You’d think I’d have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it’s an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight. – Kenny Chesney
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You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible. – Bethenny Frankel
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I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be. – Mary MacLane
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We’re all outsiders in a way. We’re all alone and can become very lonely. – Hugo Weaving
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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. – Carre Otis
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The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. – Leland Stanford
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. – Oriana Fallaci
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You know golf is very lonely. When I’m in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won’t feel like I’m alone. – Yani Tseng
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer
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We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport. – Shane Warne
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there’s the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there’s the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. – Jello Biafra
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don’t get a perm, leave your hair alone! – Mariska Hargitay
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The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. – Vladimir Kramnik
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We’ve been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It’s just like stand-up. It’s best when it’s just left alone. It doesn’t translate always on TV. It’s best live. – Amy Poehler
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You can’t play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. – Navjot Singh Sidhu
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For the first time, I lived alone… in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless. – Patty Duke
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. – Erwin Griswold
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! – Ivan Turgenev
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. – Boris Pasternak
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Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. – Isocrates
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What good is sitting all alone in your room? – Liza Minnelli
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. – Lorna Luft
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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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The problems that the world faces – from nuclear proliferation to climate change – can’t be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. – David Miliband
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This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. – David Foster Wallace
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I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself. – Bruce Willis
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. – Antonio Porchia
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I used to do a lot of interviews in the early ’80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn’t want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone. – George Strait
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone. – Pamela Stephenson
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Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. – William Blackstone
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. – A. R. Ammons
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don’t. – John Stossel
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell
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What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. – Jaron Lanier
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I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they’re alone and it’s not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you’re going through and are going through it now. – Brittany Snow
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No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. – Mitch Daniels
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical. – Henry George
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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. – Joyce Maynard
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. – Thomas B. Macaulay
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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it. – William Temple
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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. – Eric Gill
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‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. – Thomas More
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Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. – William Pennington
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. – Lewis Grizzard
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you’re not alone in the world. – Natalie Imbruglia
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Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. – Scott Hamilton
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The foundations of a strong economy don’t rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. – George Osborne
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. – Quintilian
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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry. – O. Henry
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I’m a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him. – Emma Roberts
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Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners. – Dirk Kempthorne
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Whoever wants to know something about me – as an artist which alone is significant – they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. – Gustav Klimt
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens. – Virgil Thomson
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I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. – Ken Wilber
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Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn’t interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they’ve worked hard to have. – Mike…
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A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. – Thomas Francis Meagher
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I would point out that I’m an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn’t have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn’t want anything to do with the girl…
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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone. – Pete Rose
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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. – William Tyndale
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As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone. – Nicole Richie
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who’ve gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. – Rita Dove
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone. – Flip Wilson
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters. – Paul Gauguin
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don’t feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. – Padma Lakshmi
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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova
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The best part about being with a group is that you don’t have to do everything alone. You’re with your friends. – Justin Timberlake
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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you’re going through to realize that you’re not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it’s not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. – Sarah…
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It’s only when you’re alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux
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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone. – Geoffrey Fisher
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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. – Annie Dillard
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn’t on the page, then it really won’t make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. – Larry Hagman
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I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I’ve been spending more time alone than I’d like. – Lucinda Williams
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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. – George Linnaeus Banks
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone. – Charlotte Whitton
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. – Laura Bush
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I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years – particularly ‘My Sister’s Keeper.’ It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people’s minds. – Jodi Picoult
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With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. – Mike Myers
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone. – Agnes Macphail
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People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. – Vaslav Nijinsky
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. – Anne Bronte
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! – Robert Musil
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream. – Paracelsus
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Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. – Thomas Love Peacock
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. – Rosa Parks
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I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus
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I’m ultimately a widow and a single mother, who’s not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it’s freaky. – Courtney Love
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I learned why ‘out riding alone’ is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley
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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. – Roald Dahl
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You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat! – Jack…
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I’m not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago. – Chris Hemsworth
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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. – Charles Babbage
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone. – Andrew Eldritch
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. – J. J. Abrams
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West
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I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting. – Eva Gabor
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I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there’s no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that’s standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work…
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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won’t date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. – Patti Stanger
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The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. – Jennifer Granholm
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Making checklists of things you’re looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you’ll be alone forever. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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It’s always easier if you have the support of your family, if you’re not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together. – Novak Djokovic
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I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone. – Jane Fonda
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
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At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don’t worry unduly about whether they’ll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few…
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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one’s willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. – Joyce Carol Oates
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I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone. – Adam Levine
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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me…
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