Alone Quotes

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.