Left Alone Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Doe, Civil Rights, Threatening

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• When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.peakprosperity.com

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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 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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• 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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• He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

  Will Rogers

  Government, People, President

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• When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Hurt, Forgiving, Knees

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• Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

  Thomas Merton

  Enmity, Casts, Forsake

  Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). “Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings”, p.53, New City Press

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• The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Mind, Unconscious

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

  Jodi Picoult

  Smart, Cat, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Left, Asks

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Destroying, Resources, Plague

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.84, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!" She hit him with a waffle iron.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Husband, Names, Iron

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• Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

  Emily Giffin

  Couple, Two, Stories

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.8, Macmillan

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• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Dark, Safety

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• as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, House, Normal

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

  Ben Doller

  Tangled, Desire, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

  Azar Nafisi

  Memories, Rain, Path

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.59, Random House

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• The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," Zia said. "Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?

  Rick Riordan

  Egypt, Two, Textbooks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, America, People

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 53, 1973.

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• reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Should

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.168, A&C Black

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