949 private quotes tagged alone

“I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.” — Jonathan Coe

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“For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.” — John Buchanan Robinson

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“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, let alone American movies.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.” — E. O. Wilson

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“If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.” — E. O. Wilson

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“You are forever alone.” — John Buchanan Robinson

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“In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.” — Mehmet Oz

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“Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.” — Russell Baker

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“There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.” — Gustav Klimt

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“I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.” — Jodi Picoult

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“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.” — Liev Schreiber

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“I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.” — Susan Rice

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“It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.” — Gloria Allred

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“What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.” — Hermann Broch

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“He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.” — John Fletcher

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“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.” — Adam Levine

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“I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.” — George Strait

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“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.” — Isocrates

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“If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides

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“Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.” — Germaine Greer

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“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.” — Wendell Berry

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