949 private quotes tagged alone

“The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.”— Ellen G. White

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”— Marie Antoinette

“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”— Kin Hubbard

“It is very easy to love alone.”— Gertrude Stein

“So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.”— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”— Jack Nicholson

“Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.”— Wayne Coyne

“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.”— Bertolt Brecht

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”— Fiona Apple

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”— Pearl S. Buck

“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.”— George W. Bush

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”— Ovid

“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?”— Virginia Woolf

“We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”— Susan Taylor

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.”— Billy Connolly

“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”— William Hazlitt

“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.”— Princess Diana

“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.”— Sandra Day O'Connor

“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”— George Santayana

“No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.”— Louis L'Amour

“We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.”— Chief Joseph

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”— John Locke

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.”— Steve Martin