#alone

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#alone #come #essential #into #leave

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comics #like #live #more #only

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. ↗

— Quintilian

#educated #fathers #highly #i #i do

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#automatic #cannot #conquered #count #deny

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#itself #movie #music #stand #will

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#creator #great #great things #let us #remember

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#buy #castle #castles #enough #forty

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#i #left #my own #need #own

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #energy #even #get #going