Isolated Quotes - Page 9

• An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Pawns, Spread

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• The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

  Philip Larkin

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.

  Anaximander

  Distance, Sky, Space

  "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible". The Watchtower, October 1, 1980.

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• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

  Jaron Lanier

  Doors, Empty Rooms, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.180, Vintage

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• An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Faces, Married, Pity

  "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

  Gabby Douglas

  Home, Eye, Night

  "Gabby Douglas' Interview With Oprah Winfrey Sparks Firestorm Online". www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 28, 2012.

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It’s a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don’t choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don’t want to be later.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Decisions You Make, Choices, Events

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• We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

  Alan Watts

  Independent, Knowing, Ego

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

  Pope Francis

  Community, Individual, Participation

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

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• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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• As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Destiny, Long, Narrative

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• The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Ideas, Have Faith

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• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Dream, Party, Future

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Squares, Essentials

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Discovery

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• You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.

  Joy Williams

  Believe, Eye, Animal

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.1, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Years, Law, Ideas

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• There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Games, Competition

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• As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to other meshes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Independent, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

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