Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning… — Maya Goded Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot!… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other… — Tim Duncan Copy Share Image
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
