Isolated Quotes
478 quotes by 423 authors
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The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at…
— N. T. Wright
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The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or…
— Fritjof Capra
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world…
— Milan Kundera
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We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a…
— Shepard Smith
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This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there…
— Scott Carpenter
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People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer…
— Edward T. Hall
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Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world;…
— Paulo Freire
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Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas…
— Rick Renzi
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Australia is the most isolated continent.
— Jared Diamond
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Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the…
— Jacque Fresco
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Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
— Paul Fleischman
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Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get…
— Sandra Dodd
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The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel,…
— Rudy Rucker
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is…
— Linda Gordon
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No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.
— Theodore Epp
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The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started…
— Ernst Mayr
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I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet…
— Mike Rutherford
Who Wrote These Isolated Quotes
423 authors contributed a total of 478 Isolated Quotes, led by these top contributors: