It’s always easier if you have the support of your family, if you’re not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together. 851
The foundations of a strong economy don’t rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. 677
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. 2.45K
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you’re not alone in the world. 2.46K
I’m not saying that there’s anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I’m saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven’t quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. 721
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. 624
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. 1.18K
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. 1.24K
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. 664
As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up. 648
But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn’t at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what’s going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone. 2.53K
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. 2.34K
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. 2.35K
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one’s willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. 827
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. 637
What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. 678
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone. 671
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. 679
