949 private quotes tagged alone

“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.” — Christian Bale

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“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.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.” — John Updike

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“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.” — John Updike

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“For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.” — E. W. Howe

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

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“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.” — David Hume

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“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.” — John Irving

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“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.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“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.” — David Cameron

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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.” — Heath Ledger

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“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.” — Paul Tillich

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“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.” — A. N. Wilson

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“I'm so secluded. Very alone.” — Yves Saint Laurent

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“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.” — Nancy Kerrigan

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“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.” — Nicolas Cage

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

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“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“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.” — Peter Fenn

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“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.” — Eddie Van Halen

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

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