I’ve spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it’s actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it. – Matt Roper
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they’re all in London. – Martin Parr
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. – Florence King
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans – five times the population of Britain – are in the middle class. – David Miliband
As I’ve gotten older I’ve occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that’s also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. – Chris Ware
Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we’re not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos. – Nick Bostrom
A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I’ll stop short of calling it foolish. – Claire Cameron
You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it’s down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone. – Martin Campbell
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. – Frida Kahlo
We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn’t mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really – should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living. – Najib Mikati
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. – Gloria Allred
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn’t raising them alone. – Gioconda Belli
It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. – Paul McCartney
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking – your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it’s not you alone, it’s you in partnership. – Marilyn Nelson
When I’m online, I’m alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. – Clifford Stoll
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. – Noam Chomsky
For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the ’70s and ’80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world. – Pankaj Mishra
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Douglas Coupland
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child’s mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable. – Ellen Key
Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind. – Michael Patrick King
Bieber’s so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that’s going to stand alone. – Diplo
I like writing for movies. It’s nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it’s nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie. – Daniel Handler
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. – David Cameron
