Top 1200 Lonely At The Top Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.

Coming to Middlesex, there was one coach in particular who backed me. But outside of that, it's a pretty lonely place.

I had a little radio next to the bed and I'd just listen to the top 10 - I mean, it was crap but I was young - and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn't have a CD player... so it was kind of all I had, you know?

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

Many liberals argue that big U.S. companies don't really pay the top corporate rate. While this is sometimes true, it's mainly because, during recessions, companies lose money, and get a tax loss carryforward that temporarily reduces their effective rate. But during economic expansions, when profits rise, companies then do pay the top rate.

My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.