949 private quotes tagged alone

“Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.”— Alex Kapranos

“I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.”— Ellen Page

“But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.”— Pia Zadora

“But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.”— Meghan O'Rourke

“Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.”— Warren Christopher

“I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.”— Patricia Highsmith

“I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.”— Jenna Bush

“As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.”— Chris Ware

“Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.”— Henry Cabot Lodge

“I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.”— Laura Marling

“Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.”— Bobby Scott

“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”— Marya Mannes

“We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.”— John Abizaid

“The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.”— Paul Weyrich

“I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.”— Maria Mitchell

“I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.”— Laura Marling

“When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.”— Tom Brady

“We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”— James Anthony Froude

“The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.”— Paul Davies

“In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.”— Jeff Miller

“Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.”— Paul Davies

“Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.”— Paul Davies

“One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.”— Benjamin Tucker

“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”— Phyllis McGinley

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”— John Naisbitt