949 private quotes tagged alone

“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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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.” — John Updike

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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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“For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.” — E. W. Howe

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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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“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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“Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.”

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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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“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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“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 it.” — Ted Kulongoski

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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.” — Emma Roberts

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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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“From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.” — Heath Ledger

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

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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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“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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“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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“Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.” — Richard Linklater

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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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“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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“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.” — Eddie Van Halen

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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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