‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’ by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I’ve heard several people say the size alone intimidated them. – Ann Leckie
People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone. – Angela Cartwright
Democracy is liberty – a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy. – Chiang Kai-shek
I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me. – Britney Spears
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. – Charles Babbage
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
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. – Annie Dillard
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. – Bulent Ecevit
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I’m alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle. – Ashwin Sanghi
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef. – Bobby Flay
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. – A. R. Ammons
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. – Alain de Botton
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone. – Agnes Macphail
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. – Ayn Rand
I broke my neck, it’s a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead. – Brooke Burns
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting. – Beth Simone Noveck
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. – Athanasius
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. – Bertolt Brecht
Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance. – Arianna Huffington
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
