Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race… — Tabitha Suzuma 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
Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to live in isolation. Not in nuclear families or bubbled existence. The richness of life is found in… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is Isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Solitude increased my perception. But here’s the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings… You can have my absence of faith, you can… — CTate Copy Share Image
“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching… — Heather James Copy Share Image
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
“And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation." - Toru… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth 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
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets,… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image