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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Women, House, Empty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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• It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.

  James Morcan

  Kings, War, Names

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• Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Voice, Senate, Session

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• The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Baby, Cat, Moon

  Rudyard Kipling (2008). “Just So Stories and the Jungle Book”

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• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

  Leon Uris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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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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• We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

  Kinky Friedman

  Stars, Shining

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

  Edwin Arnold

  Love, Beautiful, Lonely

  Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”

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• Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you're meditating on a lone mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Waiting

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• The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

  Jermain Defoe

  Player, Roles, Enjoy

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• We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

  Jeh Johnson

  Phases, Moments, Lone Wolf

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Community, Moxie, May

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• Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
  But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sea, Tree, Littles

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Forever, Effort

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2349, Delphi Classics

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• I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

  Everett Ruess

  Thinking, Fascination, Wilderness

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• Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Night, Long

  'To Night'

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