949 private quotes tagged alone

“Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.”— William Pennington

“I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.”— Natalie Imbruglia

“The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.”— David Miliband

“I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.”— Lewis Grizzard

“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

“Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.”— K. D. Lang

“I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.”— Joseph Barbera

“The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.”— David Miliband

“The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.”— George Osborne

“You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.”— Navjot Singh Sidhu

“People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.”— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.”— Margaret Sanger

“The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.”— Erwin Griswold

“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”— Ivan Turgenev

“At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.”— Boris Pasternak

“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”— Antonio Porchia

“What good is sitting all alone in your room?”— Liza Minnelli

“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”— A. R. Ammons

“You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.”— John Stossel

“It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.”— Katherine Mansfield

“You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.”— Bethenny Frankel

“You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.”— Kenny Chesney

“I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.”— Steve Lacy

“We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.”— Hugo Weaving

“Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.”— Steve Lacy