Quotes about Alone

“If I'm singing powerfully, I need something powerful behind me so that I don't feel like I am left alone.”

“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

“When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.”

“As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.”

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

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

“Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.”

“To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.”

“Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.”

“In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.”

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.”

“When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.”

“Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.”

“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”

“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”

“It is not enough to have talent alone. You will have to train hard and motivate yourself to do your best. You should learn to live for your sport.”

“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.”

“I'm happily single.”

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

“Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.”

“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.”