#alone

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ↗

— Al Capone

#farther #get #gun #kind #kind word

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#alone #also #believe #bootstraps #come

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#case #either #i #i think #idea

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#left #man #never #tea #trust

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

#am #basically #biking #comfortable #director

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#after #alone #along #four #green

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. ↗

— Matt Damon

#alone #because #been #even #happy

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#comes #concerns #different #get #habit

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#always #buddhism #go #mistake #notes

All love is lost but upon God alone. ↗

— William Dunbar

#god #lost #love #love is #upon