Quotes with alone

Quotes 301 till 320 of 440.

  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bob Moawad The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
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  • Anne Frank The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Tacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • Donna Tartt The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • James Russell Lowell The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
    My Study Windows (1871)
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bob Dylan The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
    Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
    At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
    But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Alexander The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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