...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation. — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think there is loneliness everywhere, and there is isolation and there is nostalgic, homesick, longing everywhere you go. — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
Social distancing does not mean isolation. Call and video chat with friends and loved ones. — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
“Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes. After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of… — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and… — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
