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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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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – Horace Mann
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert
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We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It’s really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone. – Amanda Seyfried
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? – Igor Stravinsky
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. – Sri Aurobindo
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The strong man is strongest when alone. – Friedrich Schiller
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. – Jules Verne
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be. – Cesare Pavese
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I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. – Dorothy Hamill
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To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. – Richard Thompson
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I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. – Adriana Lima
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Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. –…
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. – Black Elk
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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through…
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While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. – Josh McDowell
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The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. That’s the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it’s also where the title came from for the book. – Paul Kane
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I think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’ – Demetri Martin
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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom. – Alicia Keys
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I love clothes, but I don’t know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed. – Jennifer Aniston
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I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. – Elayne Boosler
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Sometimes, when I’m alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance. – Tori Spelling
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If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil’s playground. – Lisa Marie Presley
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There’s one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. ‘The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963’ consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what…
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The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. – Joe Rogan
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. – Dag Hammarskjold
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Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. – Stuart Appleby
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. – Laurence J. Peter
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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. – Jerome K. Jerome
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. – Anne Lamott
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Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me. – Larry Wilcox
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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. – Alanis Morissette
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. – Louis D. Brandeis
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It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. – Phil McGraw
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Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold. – Ludwig van Beethoven
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. – Gertrude Stein
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can’t please everyone. But when you’re different, you can last. – Don Rickles
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I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. – Mother Jones
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. – Brendan Behan
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Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. – Eliot Engel
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. – Walter Scott
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The best thing I’ve learned is, if you’re going out, never go out alone – you leave yourself vulnerable. If you’ve got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people. – Daniel Radcliffe
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. – Keith Richards
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Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. – P. G. Wodehouse
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Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’ – Johnny Carson
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. – Theodor Adorno
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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. – Paul Cezanne
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. – William Osler
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. – Michelangelo
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. – Franz…
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And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. – Max Muller
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. – Tallulah Bankhead
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There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham
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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil
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Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them. – Joseph Joubert
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. – Mao Zedong
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives. – Ovid
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Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter. – James A. Garfield
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I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage. – Halle Berry
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. – Salma Hayek
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! – Anthony de Mello
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I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing. – Chantal Kreviazuk
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It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. – Paul McCartney
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. – Charles Caleb Colton
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. – James Madison
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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I’ve never played with a band. I’ve always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. – Steve…
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. – George Santayana
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No memory is ever alone it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. – Louis L’Amour
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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. – Chief Joseph
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A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke
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A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people’s rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. – Leonard Peltier
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. – Virginia Woolf
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Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on. – Billy Connolly
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. – Henry Rollins
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. – E. O. Wilson
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope
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Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. – Wayne Coyne
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide. – Jack Nicholson
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Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. – Arthur C. Clarke
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. – Eric Hoffer
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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. – George W. Bush
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. – Bertolt Brecht
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering. – R. Buckminster Fuller
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. – St. Jerome
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. – Susan Taylor
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt
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I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. – Princess Diana
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. – Lord Byron
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. – Rudyard Kipling
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The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. – Paramahansa Yogananda
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I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. – David Walliams
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. – Pope John XXIII
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‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. – Harry Connick, Jr.
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. – Marie Antoinette
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. – Sivananda
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It doesn’t matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end. – Billy Idol
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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. – Ellen G. White
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Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. – Peabo Bryson
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. – Anton Chekhov
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So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. – Charles Bukowski
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats
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My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time. – Jim Carrey
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I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. – Ingrid Bergman
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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. – Emo Philips
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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. – John Muir
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. – Mick Jagger
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. – Rene Descartes
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All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. – Christian Lous Lange
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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. – Jesus Christ
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. – Stendhal
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I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody I don’t have to be a first to anybody. – Lena Horne
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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. – Chuck Palahniuk
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. – Samuel Johnson
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We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. – Epictetus
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. – William Alexander
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. – Emily Dickinson
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have. – James Dean
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. – Billy Joel
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. – Honore de Balzac
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. – Oliver Goldsmith
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. – James Russell Lowell
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Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone. – Orison Swett Marden
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Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. – Salvador Dali
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. – Rainer Maria Rilke
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. – John C. Maxwell
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. – Henry A. Kissinger
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. – Michel de Montaigne
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Pericles
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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. – Stephen Hawking
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Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. – Denis Waitley
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. – Baltasar Gracian
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. – Deborah Tannen
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I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one. – Lady Gaga
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. – Horace
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. – Hubert H. Humphrey
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No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone. – Hillary Clinton
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. – Jean-Paul Sartre
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You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. – Judy Garland
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Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. – Charles Stanley
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair. – Clint Eastwood
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry
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Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. – Mitt Romney
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. – W. Clement Stone
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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. – Terry Pratchett
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