Left Alone Quotes - Page 4

• The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

  Terry Crews

  Father, Parent, Demand

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

  Catherine Stock

  People, Small Villages, Gallery

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• There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

  John S. Hall

  People, Soul, Defense

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

  James St. James

  Fall, Space, People

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.

  Antony Sher

  Letting Go, Men, Hug

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• I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

  Libba Bray

  Long, Insanity, Mind

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• The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

  John Boyne

  Life, America, Waiting

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Maturity, Battle

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Home, Who I Am

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

  Ovid

  Numbers, Storm, Prosperity

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• Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

  John Sterling

  Poetry, Joy, Magic

  John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168

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• Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes,
  Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;
  Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance
  With timid eye, to read the distant glance;
  Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,
  To name the nameless ever-new disease;
  Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,
  Which real pain and that alone can cure;
  How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
  Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
  How would ye bear to draw your latest breath,
  Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

  George Crabbe

  Prayer, Pain, Real

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  Anita Loos

  Stars, World, Normal

  Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”

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• It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

  Ray Lewis

  Games, Watches, Flags

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

  Maximilian Schell

  Nice, Always Happy, Ifs

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• I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.

  Walter E. Williams

  Kings, Law, People

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• I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Causes, Made

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

  Kirsten Olson

  Learning, Want, Jilted

  Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

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• The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

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• What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

  Bruce Nauman

  Art, Doe, Should

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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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• Things do not get better by being left alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Get Better, Action, Left

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Ocean, Water

  "Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Apr 29, 2010.

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