#alone

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#around #budget #dark #dead #easier

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. ↗

— Epictetus

#credit #educated #free #give #many

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#america #assembly #assembly line #consumption #dominated

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. ↗

— Edie Falco

#about #acting #ago #alone #i

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#books #feel #i #i feel #less

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#bigger #body #burn #calories #exercise

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#been #break #broke #chest #chin

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

#i #leisure #less #never #than

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#arrived #because #before #desirous #few