Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Russell Baker
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. Dee Dee Myers
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. William Law
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility. Martin Heidegger
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? Robert Browning
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. Thomas Frank
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things. Peter Singer
I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. Sergei Bubka
I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? Dustin Hoffman
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. Sandra Day O'Connor
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. Sandra Day O'Connor
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. Arthur Erickson
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. Richard Branson
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. Bruce Barton
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. Chris Cornell
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. Jeremy Taylor
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. Baruch Spinoza