949 private quotes tagged alone

“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 words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.” — Ellen G. White

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“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?” — Virginia Woolf

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“I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.” — Richard Pryor

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“The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” — Justin Timberlake

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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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“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.” — Billy Connolly

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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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“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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“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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“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?” — Igor Stravinsky

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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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“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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“One ever feels his twoness - 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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“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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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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“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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“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.” — Virginia Woolf

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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” — Charlie Chaplin

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