Alone Quotes

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

~ Joe Biden

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

~ Martin Jacques

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

~ Virginia Williams

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

~ Mitt Romney

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

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

~ Naveen Jain

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

~ K. D. Lang

Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

~ Eden Hazard

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

~ Marilyn Monroe

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

~ Jason Schwartzman

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

~ Joe Lieberman

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

~ Napoleon Hill

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

~ Jodie Foster

A hospital alone shows what war is.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

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

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

~ Margaret Thatcher

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

~ Benito Mussolini

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

~ Jacques Chirac

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

~ Russell Baker

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

~ Leo Tolstoy

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

~ George Armstrong Custer

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

~ John F. Kennedy

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

~ Lajos Kossuth

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

~ E. O. Wilson

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

~ Rudolf Steiner

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

~ E. O. Wilson

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

~ George Matthew Adams

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

~ Orson Welles

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

~ Ellen G. White

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

~ John Locke

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

~ Zac Brown

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

~ Celine Dion

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

~ Igor Stravinsky

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

All love is lost but upon God alone.

~ William Dunbar

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

~ Jane Kaczmarek