949 private quotes tagged alone

“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

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“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

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“Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.” — Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.” — Howard Hodgkin

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“To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.” — Donna Tartt

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“I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.” — John Barton

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“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.” — Mary Oliver

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“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.” — Edward Sapir

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“After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.” — Nancy Grace

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“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.” — Georges Cuvier

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“There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.” — Caleb Carr

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“Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.” — Luke Ford

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“I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.” — Susan Wojcicki

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“I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.” — Neil Diamond

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“However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.” — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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“No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.” — Kim Weston

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“The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.” — Susan Rice

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“As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.” — Matthew Macfadyen

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“Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.” — Alphonsus Liguori

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“The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.” — Jacques Ellul

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“Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.” — Elizabeth Berkley

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“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.” — Lana Del Rey

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“It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.” — Jenny Holzer

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“But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.” — Daniel Greenberg

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