#lone

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#contributor #country #family #gets #happens

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#behind #ever #fleeting #gift #grief

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. ↗

— Martin Luther

#blood #history #moves #wheels

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. ↗

— Michelangelo

#cannot #i #live #paint #patrons

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#clone #extent #fate #find #how

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ↗

— Isocrates

#our #possessions #wisdom

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#alone #barriers #break #break up #created

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#brothers #cry #fights #great #had

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i