I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure – I was now alone. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 3. As Victor departs to Ingolstadt for his studies, he fears loneliness.
Most people are afraid of being alone. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Mark of Gideon’.
I really don’t want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us. – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. – Horace Mann
To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness. – Gunnar Myrdal
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don’t see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community. – Halle Berry
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. – George Gallup
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. – Grimes
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you’re a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you’re a Democrat. – Grover Norquist
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. – George Linnaeus Banks
I don’t see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them? – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. – Gilbert Hernandez
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord’s service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word. – Henry B. Eyring
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone. – Geoffrey Fisher
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. – George Grey
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different. – Gary Jennings
Aim high and don’t sell yourself short. Know that you’re capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things – depression, body image or whatever else – so know that it’s not just you. You’re not alone. – Holly Holm
I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback. – Howard Hodgkin
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints. – Herbert Hoover
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference. – Greta Garbo
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. – Henry David Thoreau
My EP, ‘Room 93,’ was all about isolation – it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person. – Halsey
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. – H. P. Lovecraft
