Left Alone Quotes - Page 10

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

Thomas Paine

Giving, Age, World

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One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well, I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world...

Rick Santorum

Thinking, Views, Ideas

"A Win-Win Election" by James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 4, 2012.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Alan Watts

Water, Mind, Trying

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However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.

Dalai Lama

Sick, Diversity, People

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As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

Lisa Kleypas

Axes, Years, Long

Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

Ted Dekker

Dark, Looks, World

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Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

George Harrison

Zoos, Men, Space

"I, Me, Mine". Book by George Harrison, 1979.

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You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. “Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble.” “That’s what I thought.” Royce sounded relieved. “For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.

Michael J. Sullivan

Jumping, Two, Gone

Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.266, Ridan Publishing

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I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

Jay Leno

Hate, Sleep, Cat

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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear And Loathing, World, Finding Peace

Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Wayne Brady

Left

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Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

Scott Stapp

People, Band, Care

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True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

Sophia Loren

Laughter, Children, Soul

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I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Thinking, Government, Long

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When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

CeCe Winans

Song, Light, Giving

CeCe Winans (2000). “On a Positive Note”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.

Yuriy Tarnawsky

Editing, Editors, Use

"No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Ahmed H. Zewail

Book, Enjoy, Left

Source: www.nobelprize.org

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I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Character, Thinking, Ice

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Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

Vladimir Putin

Children, Growing Up, Men

Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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