Lone Quotes

• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Seal

  Coward, Survivor, Navy Seal

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• There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Team, Rivers, Guy

  "Lone Survivor". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendship, Inspiring, Loneliness

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1473, Bantam

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• A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

  Billy Collins

  Wind, Midnight, Tails

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.9, Random House

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• There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Good Man, Lone Ranger

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• I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

  Bela Lugosi

  Heart, People, Mind

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

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• The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

  Jodi Picoult

  Focus, Lone Wolf, Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Voice, Senate, Session

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• If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Nuts

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• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Doors, Wind, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.140, Hamilton Books

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• A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Alienation, Walkers, Audience

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.36, Granta Books

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• She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!

  Lord Byron

  Humility, Eye, Voice

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about ten things you can do with one note in a string section. But a lone violin is continuously changing textures.

  Stephin Merritt

  Variety

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Government

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• I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, Looks, Significant

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• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  Bear Grylls

  Eye, Looks, Ems

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• His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she’d never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. “You have me,” she whispered. All of me.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Firsts, Lone Wolf

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.274, Penguin

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Parent, Tattooed, Felt

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• But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Parent

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• I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Cowboy, Japan, Watches

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• The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

  Robin McKinley

  Vampire, Lone Ranger, Rangers

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• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

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