Top 1200 Standing Alone Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a social in tune animal, that’s what a dog is. That’s why they got so much trouble with separation anxiety – you leave them home alone and they’re chewing up the house and stuff. A lot of dogs don’t handle being home alone very well.

I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

I just enjoying playing for Liverpool, it doesn't really matter who is standing next to me.

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

It's almost impossible to take my right hand on the chin and keep standing, and I knew that.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we most—we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing, Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring; But Man alone has skill and power to send The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend; 'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitioning from fitting in to standing out.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.

She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.