“It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.”
– Jenny Holzer
“I don’t understand the Democrats’ approach to Social Security in this country, and I’m not alone.”
– William Weld
“It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.”
– Jenny Holzer
“And I don’t have any specific steps to take because I don’t start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it’s enough and you can leave it alone.”
– Bruce Nauman
“I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.”
– Bede Griffiths
“The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.”
– Gary Lineker
“I love photo sessions. I’m alone, I’m the queen, everyone’s taking care of me.”
– Eva Herzigova
“And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn’t want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn’t have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.”
– Rachel Dratch
“If there’s ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.”
– Robert M. Gates
“What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.”
– Theodor Herzl
“We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.”
– Robert Zemeckis
“Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.”
– John Doolittle
“That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.”
– Charles Eastman
“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”
– Yitzhak Rabin
“On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it’s instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.”
– Judith Krantz
“I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.”
– Bharati Mukherjee
“I don’t like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I’m an obsessed mixer and I can’t leave it alone.”
– David Friedman
“You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.”
– Ken Jennings
“He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.”
– John Fletcher
“Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.”
– Alphonsus Liguori
“I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I’m living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.”
– Ashley Judd
“Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.”
– Ashley Judd
“President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.”
– William Westmoreland
“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.”
– Tony Gilroy
“Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.”
– Jim Evans
“There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn’t even notice, that the British wouldn’t even notice, let alone the American audience.”
– Simon Pegg
“There’s this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.”
– Simon Pegg
“I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.”
– Lana Del Rey
“Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.”
– Simon Raven
“Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.”
– Goran Persson