#alone

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#always #creative #go #i #into

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

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#apart #cannot #devotion #god #helpless

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

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

#another #books #boring #concluded #drudgery

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