Category/Topic Name: Alone

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

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.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

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?

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

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.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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?

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

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.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

To be adult is to be alone.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

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.

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

We're all in this alone.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

The doer alone learneth.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

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.

I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

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.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

I don't like being alone.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

By all means use some time to be alone.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

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.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

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.

Artists walk alone.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

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.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Love alone could waken love.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

I want to be alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

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.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

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.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

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.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Remember we're all in this alone.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

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.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

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.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

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.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

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

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

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.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

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

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.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

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.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

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.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

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.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

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

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.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

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.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

You only grow when you are alone.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

I don't like being in houses alone.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

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.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

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.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

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.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

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.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

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.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Change alone is unchanging.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

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.

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.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Alone I'm nothing.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

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.

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.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

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

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.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

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.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

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

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

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.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Being alone is very difficult.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

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.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

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.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

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

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

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.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

All we ask is to be let alone.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

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.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

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.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Work alone is noble.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

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.

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.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

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.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

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.

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

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.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

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.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

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.

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.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I like my life alone.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I'm happily single.

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Better be alone than in bad company.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

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.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

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.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

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.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

The writer is all alone.

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

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.