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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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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. – A. N. Wilson
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Let me alone, and go in search of someone else. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. – Franz Liszt
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn’t at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what’s going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone. – Nancy Kerrigan
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, ‘We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we’re not, we cling to.’ – Gabriel Byrne
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Most bands don’t even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. – Peter Steele
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I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. – Conrad Hall
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It’s an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone. – Joaquin Phoenix
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I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. – Nicolas Cage
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I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me. – Britney Spears
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I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play. –…
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The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run. – Hank Aaron
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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. – Peter Fenn
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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. – Nigel Farage
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My learning process is by eye alone it’s not at all scientific. – Miuccia Prada
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Surely being a Professional Beauty – let alone an ageing one – is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. – Julie Burchill
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. – Dan Rather
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I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important. – Shay Mitchell
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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone – when the time was right for me. – Christy Turlington
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One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. – Aung San Suu Kyi
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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. – Jeffery Deaver
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. – William O. Douglas
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Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. – Marc Newson
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I’m a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. – Leighton Meester
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Men don’t even ask me out. I can’t remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I’m talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone. – Anna Nicole Smith
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. – E. W. Howe
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I’m not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. – Laura Linney
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. – John Jay Chapman
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It’s important to say that actors can’t act alone, it’s impossible. What we have to do is support each other. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone. – Dar Williams
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. – Thomas Hobbes
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. – Jacob Bronowski
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The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. – Dan Savage
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve – or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart – or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition – or to be imprisoned by…
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From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying. – Heath Ledger
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We talk a lot on ‘Biggest Loser’ about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I’m always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my…
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. – Jonathan Sacks
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn’t feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something…
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. – Thomas de Quincey
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Most of these people who are celebrities now don’t do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don’t want to be one. – will.i.am
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I couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me. – Natalie Wood
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I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn’t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… I’m the most sampled artist in history. – Rick James
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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. – Gerald R. Ford
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. – Elizabeth Bowen
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I’m alone and trying to solve a sentence. It’s exciting, even when it’s frustrating, even when I can’t do it right. – Elizabeth Gilbert
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden
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Well, I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. – Sarah Palin
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Volume depends precisely on the writer’s having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. – Gary Becker
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it’s O.K., but it’s of no account. – V. S. Naipaul
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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don’t realize what it’s really like. – Lenny Kravitz
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One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. – Christian Bale
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. – George Berkeley
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. – Whitney Houston
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. – Ibrahim Babangida
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And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. – Chris Cornell
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. – Jeremy Taylor
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Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. – Alfred North Whitehead
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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef. – Bobby Flay
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Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. – Paul Brunton
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas
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And remember don’t high post when you’re far from home, and high posting when you’re all alone. – Mos Def
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Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. – Dylan Thomas
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Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule. – Tom Sizemore
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I’d like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. – Spike Lee
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams
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I’m the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. – Peter O’Toole
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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. – Martin Heidegger
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Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. – Sandra Day O’Connor
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. – Ramakrishna
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I was never less alone than when by myself. – Edward Gibbon
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. – Vaclav Havel
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. – Joe Biden
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James
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Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! – with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. – Russell Baker
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Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn’t care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a…
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. – William Law
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Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. – Robert Browning
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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. – Thomas Frank
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I don’t think nationalism is alone holding the field it’s in contention with a lot of different things. – Peter Singer
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I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. – Sergei Bubka
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I mean, I don’t think I’m alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind’s eye. You don’t think they were cute like every other baby? – Dustin Hoffman
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. – Arthur Erickson
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The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. – Richard Branson
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An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. – W. E. B. Du Bois
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I think about dying. I’ve come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. – Richard Pryor
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. – Fiona Apple
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A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it. – Glenn Beck
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I don’t think I ever got the hang of the writers’ room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to – if I did something again, I think I’d want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does. –…
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. – Thomas Wolfe
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone! – Calvin Klein
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. – Toni Morrison
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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. – Winona Ryder
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. – Muhammad Iqbal
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. – Bell Hooks
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. – Christina Ricci
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason’s imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. – Louis Aragon
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality. – Yoko Ono
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I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other’s pockets. I don’t see why you have to share the same bathroom. – Jeanne Moreau
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers
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It’s kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody’s looking at me. – Louis C. K.
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Be able to live alone, even if you don’t want to and think you will never find it necessary. – Marilyn vos Savant
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything. – Vivienne Westwood
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone. – Francesca Annis
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. – Charles de Gaulle
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Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. – Joseph Hume
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. – Benito Mussolini
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I never knew I’d be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. – Nicole Kidman
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing
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It’s important for moms to have alone time. However, that’s the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that’s the way my mind sees it. – Cindy Crawford
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay. – Sam Abell
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In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. – Mehmet Oz
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck
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I can’t really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? – Audre Lorde
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As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone. – Madeleine Albright
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Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. – James Whistler
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. – George Canning
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I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone. – Leonardo DiCaprio
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. – Thor Heyerdahl
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And what’s more I’ve got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing. – Olivier Martinez
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. – Bono
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I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many the camera alone would be enough. – Alfred Eisenstaedt
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where…
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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I once had a boyfriend who couldn’t write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. – Susan…
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When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. – Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. – Dennis Prager
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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall
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Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. – Emily Carr
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone. – Tori Amos
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But there comes a moment in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone. – Thornton Wilder
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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone. – Ashley Montagu
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And I find – I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. – John Irving
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You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don’t just try to come in and take somebody else’s life. – Elizabeth Edwards
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Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. – Georg Solti
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? – Brendan Francis
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. – Herodotus
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan
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You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. – Peter Abrahams
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin
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I’ve always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I’m most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It’s why we seek the limelight – so we’re not alone, were adored. We’re loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being…
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin
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No one ever said on their deathbed, ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer’. – Danielle Berry
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. – Golda Meir
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There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat. – Brandy Norwood
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy
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I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared. – Lena Headey
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. – Jeanette Winterson
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I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman. – Claire Danes
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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.…
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. – Mary Baker Eddy
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You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. – Slavoj Zizek
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow? – Jackie Kennedy
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I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. – Johnny Cash
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I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. – David Cameron
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Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. – Shia LaBeouf
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Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone. – Guru Nanak
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. – Elie Wiesel
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