949 private quotes tagged alone

“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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“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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“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.” — John Dryden

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“I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.” — Diablo Cody

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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 got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.” — Fiona Apple

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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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“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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“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.” — O. Henry

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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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“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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“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.” — Jules Renard

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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 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 never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.” — Nicole Kidman

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“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.” — John Dryden

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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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“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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“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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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” — Wallace Stevens

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“When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!” — Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“I'm so accustomed to being alone.” — Leighton Meester

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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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“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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