I’ve always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I’m most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It’s why we seek the limelight – so we’re not alone, were adored. We’re loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. 2.01K
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. 665
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. 621
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. 677
The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn’t hijack it. And it’s because we’re afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we’re alone. We’re not. 880
But there comes a moment in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone. 707
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. 1.01K
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. 2.38K
Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. 619
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. 689
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? 1.58K
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. 1.66K
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. 1.79K
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. 697
