Best Solitary Sayings

472 Solitary quotes by 381 unique authors

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success. — Kevin Kline
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is… — Joanna Lumley
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a… — Guy Ritchie
Editing is kind of a solitary job. — Joe Dante
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little… — Charles Manson
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women… — Henry Adams
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. — Charles Bukowski
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at… — Wally Wood
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Gautama Buddha
Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of… — Cyprian
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is… — Gautama Buddha
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control;… — Richard Bach
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we… — Laura Bush
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi
Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not… — Jeffrey R. Holland
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. — George Sand
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive)… — John McGahern
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen

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