You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
No citizen or social group can be completely isolated from politics, because policy decisions and actions affect their lives.
Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.
Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.
I love my husband, and I wanted to support him, but the transition to Washington has been my hardest experience. I felt very lonely and isolated.
So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.
I would say my dad wanted to keep his kids isolated from social influences like going to school and making friends.
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.
I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.
The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
I'm from an upper-middle class background. But because there was no one of my race where I grew up, I was very isolated. I felt different from everybody else.
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