#alone

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#always #born #born to be #i #i always

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#alone #any #apartment #coming #family

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. ↗

— Richard Lovelace

#alone #am #angels #enjoy #free

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. ↗

— George B. McClellan

#blood #cost #each #external #insure

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#always #ask #asking #church #churches