The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. Michelangelo on alone
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke on alone
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. Steve Martin on alone
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere on alone
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. Leonard Peltier on alone
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton on alone
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. Franz Kafka on alone
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. Laurence Sterne on alone
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? Virginia Woolf on alone
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf on alone
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. Sophocles on alone
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. Sophocles on alone
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. Billy Connolly on alone
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. Franz Kafka on alone
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de la Bruyere on alone
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. Max Muller on alone
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. Tallulah Bankhead on alone
There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. Edwin Markham on alone
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. Simone Weil on alone
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. Philip Zimbardo on alone