949 private quotes tagged alone

“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

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“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

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“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.” — Leonard Peltier

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“I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.” — Laurence Sterne

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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.” — Virginia Woolf

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“And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.” — Max Muller

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“Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.” — St. Jerome

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“Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.” — Marc Newson

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“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.” — Chanakya

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“Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.” — Jennifer Aniston

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“Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.” — Mitt Romney

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“We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.” — Shane Warne

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“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.” — Keanu Reeves

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“I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.” — Susan Orlean

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“No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.” — Hillary Clinton

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“I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.” — Lady Gaga

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“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.” — Judy Garland

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“The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.” — Paul Kane

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