alone quotes

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.”

— Stephen Hawking

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ”

— Coco Chanel

“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. ”

“In solitude, where we are least alone.”

“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. ”

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

“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”

— Franz Kafka

“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ”

— Franz Kafka

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.”

“You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.”

— Dennis Quaid

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. ”

“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. ”

“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. ”

“No nation can meet the world's challenges alone. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. ”

— Clint Eastwood

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