“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.”
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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.”
“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.”
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.”
“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
“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.”
“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?”
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.”
“Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”
“Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.”
“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.”
“No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.”
“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!”
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”
“I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.”