#ola

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #good #i #i am #important

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. ↗

— James Taylor

#between #connection #consciousness #else #feel

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. ↗

— James Taylor

#beings #i #i think #isolated #think

On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life’s conditions, Nor from heeding Time’s monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem. This do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iris-hued embowment; But as nothing other than Part of a benignant plan; Proof that earth was made for man. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dreams

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #believe #course #envy #even

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#i #idea #isolation #like #lonely

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#ask #attacks #defend #must #ourselves

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#aggressively #believe #businesses #economic #economic system

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#big mac #brands #cbs #coca-cola #corporate

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#cannot #change #congress #constitution #i