Isolation Quotes - Page 20

• To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

  Evo Morales

  Selfish, Mean, Ambitious

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Single Life, Vices, Unbroken

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• Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?

  Christopher Ryan

  Children, Husband, Two

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• Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

  Kathleen Norris

  Dying, Desert, Faces

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Views

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• Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

  Gary Chapman

  Humans, Human Psyche, Solitary Confinement

  Gary Chapman (2015). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

  Luke Ford

  Space, Far Away, Habit

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• That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

  Emily Maguire

  Sex, Loneliness, Together

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia

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• One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

  Robert Morgan

  House, Painter, County

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• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Race, Years

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

  David Blaine

  Mcdonalds, Ideas, Fasting

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

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• True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Drama, Discovery

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• It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

  James Cameron

  Black, Tiny, Realizing

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• Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, How To Love, Environment

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• Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Distance, Live Life, Long

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• Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

  Javad Alizadeh

  Self, Political, Solitude

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• Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

  Dennis Rainey

  Marriage, Moving, States

  Dennis Rainey (2003). “Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

  Masiela Lusha

  People, Silence, Atmosphere

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". REEL Ladies Interview, reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

  Octavia Butler

  Differences, Inbreeding, Groups

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

  Conor McPherson

  Writing, Character, Scare

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• The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

  C. L. R. James

  Home, Lasts, Institutions

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• Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Recovery

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• Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

  Frederic Bastiat

  War, Giving, Hatred

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