#lone

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

— Ramakrishna

#apart #cannot #devotion #god #helpless

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

Agatha had so much love she could fill a room. A room filled with strange men, which she often did. I don’t care if every single man in that room looked exactly like me, they were strangers. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #love #funny

Can you be in love with more than one person and only one person at the same time? Yes, if you’re in love with two clones. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #paradox #funny

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. ↗

— Anne Rice

#become #group #like #lonely #might

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#atrocities #been #compliance #could #followed

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #christian #climate #climate change #coalition

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#alone #cave #courage #doubtful #escort

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. ↗

— James Monroe

#contemplation #effect #felt #great #important