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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“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.” — Bobby Flay

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

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“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.” — Paul Brunton

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“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.” — Alexandre Dumas

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“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.” — Whitney Houston

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“And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.” — Mos Def

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“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.” — Spike Lee

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“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.” — Peter O'Toole

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“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.” — Henry Adams

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

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

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“To be adult is to be alone.” — Jean Rostand

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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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“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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

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“All we ask is to be let alone.” — Jefferson Davis

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

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“Successful crimes alone are justified.” — John Dryden

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

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“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“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.” — Tom Hanks

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“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.” — Josh McDowell

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