Isolated Quotes

478 quotes by 413 authors

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks… — Shirley Temple
Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are… — Frederick Lenz
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine… — Rebecca Solnit
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more… — Eamon de Valera
I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that. I think when… — Jen Kirkman
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already… — Criss Jami
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got,… — Jess C Scott
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into… — Charles C. Mann
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as… — Ernst Mayr
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally,… — Ivan Pavlov
The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different… — Sylvia Boorstein
To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication… — Robert Koch
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members,… — Charles Hodge
I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into… — Evangeline Lilly

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