Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“Few of us have a healthy sense of boundaries. We either have rigid boundaries (“No one is ever going to get close… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“You used to give yourself over to endless sessions of doubt. You would claim to be an expert on the subject. But… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it's the first time that an awful lot of people think you… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image