Isolated Quotes

478 quotes by 413 authors

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but… — Douglas Coupland
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of… — Margaret Mitchell
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. — Hannah Arendt
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens
The fragility of love is what is most at stake hereâ€”humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… — Christopher Hitchens
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of… — Anton Chekhov
They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now… — Neal Shusterman
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in… — Raoul Vaneigem
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and… — Hermann Hesse
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that… — Wendell Berry
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel
All along â€” not only since she left, but for a decade before â€” I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she… — John Green
Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas… — Anne Lamott
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean â€” once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could… — Jared Diamond
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an… — H.G. Wells

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