Top 1200 Solitary Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

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