“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
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“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”
“The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?”
“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”
“Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.”
“The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.”
“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.”
“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.”
“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”
“The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.”
“You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.”
“I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.”
“Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.”
“Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.”
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.”
“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.”
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”