949 private quotes tagged alone

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

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“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.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“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.” — Richard Branson

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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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

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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington

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

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

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“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” — James Madison

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“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.” — Charles Bukowski

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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” — Ayn Rand

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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington

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“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.” — Franz Liszt

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