My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at,… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“When you want to fully isolate yourself from the madnesses of the people, find a wooden cottage in the middle of nowhere… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield --… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning.… — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in keeping my endurance up, my stamina up, I keep my rest periods short and I try to do… — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about the relationship with life and death and the marriage between the two. Coming to terms… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you… — Stephen Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than… — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
“Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
There are numerous issues that governments used to deal with that they now no longer deal with to the same extent: Prisons… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In the eighth grade, I'm the guy who had no real friends. I was such a loner. During school break I would… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
![“The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get…” quote by Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c04/jared-diamond-2519_able_the-metaphor-is-so-obvious-easter-island_2058444.png)
