Top 1200 Lonely At The Top Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

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.

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.], I think it would be better - and I think we'll eventually get there. It wouldn't be better at the top - [our current system] is the best in the world at the top. But the waste in the present system is awesome and we do get some very perverse incentives.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God's non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who denied God with the top of their minds, but men who, while apparently incapable of doubting him with the top of their minds, lived as though he did not exist.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

I was feeling kind of lonely and started singing All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have faded to blue.' And it went from there.

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

Things appear different from every different plane from which you look at them, and when a person standing on flat earth asks a person standing on top of a mountain, "Do you also believe something?" the person cannot tell much. The questioner must come to the top of the mountain and see. There can be no link of conversation between them until that time.