#alone

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#alone #bad #better #everything #exertions

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ↗

— Martin Luther

#books #every #leaf #lord #our

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#easy #i #left #life #live

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ↗

— Paul de Man

#alone #ashes #behind #fashion #fire

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#believe #canvas #concentrate #difficult #figure

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#busy #characters #could #create #died

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. ↗

— Judith Martin

#attached #directions #libraries #need #rest

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#because #endeavor #feel #hear #less

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#am #fat #grown #i #know

I'm so accustomed to being alone. ↗