#alone

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. ↗

— Maureen Corrigan

#people #reading #alone

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #especially #felt #here #i

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#fail #striven #who

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

#alone #contain #doctrine #fountains #godliness

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#children #experience #happy #i #make

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #best #certainly #decide #decision

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#better #dead #film #horror #horror movies

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#alone #chair #come #director #hard