I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
Life is so impermanent that it’s not about somebody else or things around me, it’s about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Marvin’s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall – that of our consciousness – between the world and ourselves.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
It’s very hard to write a song alone. It’s only by jamming that you can get a song together.
I don’t wanna hear nobody complain that they’re getting paid all this money and people won’t leave them alone. It’s part of it.
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
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.
I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.
