949 private quotes tagged alone

“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.” — Claire Danes

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

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“Love alone could waken love.” — Pearl S. Buck

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

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“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?” — Dustin Hoffman

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“I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.” — Maurice Sendak

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“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.” — Diablo Cody

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“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.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.” — Thurgood Marshall

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“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” — Janis Joplin

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“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.” — O. Henry

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“I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.” — Richard Pryor

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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.” — Wayne Dyer

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“When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.” — Nicole Kidman

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“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.” — John Dryden

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

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

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

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

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“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!” — Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.” — James Whistler

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