Alone Quotes

• The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate, ready to stand alone, curious, eager, skeptical. The banner of critical independence, ragged and torn though it may be, is still the best we have.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Great
  • Listening
  • Self

• To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and credit losses; but it can reduce liquidity premiums, help restore the confidence of investors, and thus promote stability.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Help
  • Confidence
  • Risk

• I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • Writing
  • Community
  • Alone

• They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,Creeping with little satchels down the street,And they remember, many years ago,Passing that way in silks. They wander, slowAnd solitary, through the city ways,And they alone remember those old daysMen have forgotten.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Remember
  • City
  • Alone

• Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • People
  • Alone

• We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Tonight I won't be alone

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Alone

• Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • She
  • Kids
  • House

• Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Competition
  • Year
  • Tennis

• I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • House
  • Alone
  • Boy

• Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • City
  • Effort
  • Walking

• If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Real
  • Power
  • Alone

• Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Hurt
  • Littles

• It's not easy to tick me off... I don't get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that'll do it every time. Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Wife

• The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • City

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

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • She
  • Alone

• Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Live
  • Alone

• Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Two

• I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Soul
  • Alone

• It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

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