Loner Quotes - Page 6

• No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Doors, Welcome

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• And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

  Louis Aragon

  Cities, Community, Rural Communities

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• Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

  Tom Robbins

  Attention, Way, Privacy

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• I'm not a loner at all.

  Hugh Jackman

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• Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

  Wendy Cope

  Pairs, Sock

  2001 If I Don't Know,'The Sorrow of Socks'.

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• I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  George Ritzer

  Night, Thinking, People

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• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Football, Play, Tennessee

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.

  Johnny Carson

  Kids, People, Shy

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me.

  Johnny Carson

  Lonely, Differences, Doe

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

  Craig Gillespie

  Character, Way, Obstacles

  Source: collider.com

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• There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.

  Sam Amidon

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

  Jill Sobule

  Melancholy, Sexuality, Found

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Solitude, World, Likes

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Single Person, Persons

  "Reticent Media Darling Juliana Hatfield Plays Largo Saturday Night, Talks Memoir". Interview with Pamela Chelin, www.laweekly.com. September 26, 2008.

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• World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.

  Philip Roth

  War, Order, Political

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Father, People, Want

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• My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

  Hayley Atwell

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.

  George Carlin

  People, Guy, Twenties

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Partners, Life Partner

  "Dick Van Dyke Marries His 40-Year-Old Makeup Artist". toofab.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

  Lissie

  Skills, Community, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.

  Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire

  School, Kids, Profile

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 6, 2012.

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• If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

  Natalie Dormer

  Running, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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