Isolated Quotes

• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Connections

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Beautiful, Two

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Being Alone, People, Leave Me Alone

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

  Robert Smithson

  Language, Procedures, Should

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

  Seamus Heaney

  Self, Intimate, Crisis

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• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Literature, World

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #206, 1798.

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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  James Earl Jones

  Kids, Thinking, Agriculture

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Fighting, Long, People

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• I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, United States, Affair

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• Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

  Diane Abbott

  Gun, Issues, Causes

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• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Reality

  Hannah Arendt (1957). “Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess”

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• We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

  Eva Herzigova

  Strong, Smart

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• Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Snow, Special

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• That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

  Jayson Williams

  Stones, Prison, Polished

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• Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Law, Decision, Mass

  "Law and the Social Order: Essays in Legal Philosophy".

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• It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Depressing, Writing, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

  Leon Trotsky

  History, Roles, Politics

  History of the Russian Revolution ch. 47 (1930) (translation by Max Eastman) See Birrell 1

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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Successful, People

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• Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

  Donald Johanson

  Hands, Skulls, Teeth

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

  Nancy Reagan

  Mean, President, Firsts

  "Nancy Reagan is dead at 94" by Maxwell Tani, www.businessinsider.com. March 6, 2016.

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• I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

  Ernst Mayr

  Population, Location, Found

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

  James Taylor

  Nature, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Memories, Usa, United States

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• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Army, Afterlife, Battle

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

  Moshe Katsav

  Country, Rights, Iran

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