By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. – Edward Livingston
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. – Franz Liszt
There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it’s very special, and you realize that’s why you do it. – Dave Gahan
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature. – Dave Davies
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. – Cathy Freeman
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. – Paul Cezanne
There’s no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break – I find the conventional life gratifying – as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day. – Edith Pearlman
The reception for ‘Enemy?’ I don’t care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone. – Denis Villeneuve
I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see ‘Bambi’ alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer. – Matthew Gray Gubler
When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive… And then other times when you’ve had to find your own way… that’s always been a dominant theme in what I’ve done. – Matt Bellamy
I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I’m ready to go home, and I’m very comfortable alone. – Doug Ducey
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone – and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. – David Whyte
In my better sense of mind, I know that I’m far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me. – Phil Anselmo
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved. – Dido Armstrong
To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit. – F. Sionil Jose
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington
I don’t think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, ‘Leave us alone.’ We can’t change what is past. We can’t blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn’t destroy us that bad. – Carmen Kass
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. – Dag Hammarskjold
Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won’t open. I’ve got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can’t get them off. – Marian Seldes
And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. – Chris Cornell
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. – Dorothy Hamill
I don’t know. I think it’s funny! I think it’s funny! I go, what? It’s so absurd. I’m alone. – Danny DeVito
No matter who you are, what you’ve accomplished, what your financial situation is – when you’re dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can’t work, can’t live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don’t know what to expect. – Maria Shriver
In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles. – Michael M. Honda
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. – Daniel Smith
I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers… and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on ‘Ground Zero’ is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there. – David Shuster
Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth. – Elijah Parish Lovejoy
