Let Alone Quotes

299 Let Alone quotes by 266 unique authors

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor;… — Derrick Bell
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's. — Stephen King
I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to… — Becca Fitzpatrick
This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that… — Becca Fitzpatrick
There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up.… — Marya Hornbacher
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are… — Caitlin Moran
how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they… — James A. Baldwin
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and… — Richard Yates
So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re… — Veronica Roth
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. — Elisabeth Elliot
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. — Brandon Mull
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. — Ray Bradbury
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's… — Paula McLain
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half,"… — Veronica Roth
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against… — Christopher Hitchens
Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and,… — E F Schumacher
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of… — Virginia Woolf
For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in… — Frank Beddor
It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create.… — Dan Wells
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or… — Sonia Sotomayor
But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let… — Toni Morrison
She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin, or lips, or…… — Derek Landy

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