949 private quotes tagged alone

“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”— Emil Zatopek

“For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.”— Jonathan Carroll

“I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.”— Tom Petty

“We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.”— Robert Zemeckis

“It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.”— John McCarthy

“I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.”— Jane Siberry

“Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.”— Eric Ries

“Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.”— Salvatore Quasimodo

“I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.”— Sam Houston

“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.”— Margaret Sanger

“There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.”— Mike Mills

“I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.”— Nicholas Hoult

“If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.”— Gary Allan

“I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.”— Diana Wynne Jones

“Artists walk alone.”— Ezra Miller

“In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.”— Michelle Bachelet

“The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.”— Meir Kahane

“Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.”— Mira Nair

“I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.”— Anna Paquin

“But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.”— Harold Bloom

“Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.”— Horatio Nelson

“It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.”— Paul Thomas Anderson

“I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.”— Mary Douglas

“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.”— Hank Azaria