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" Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. "

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" If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. "

Robert M. Gates

" I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. "

" I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. "

Mallory Ortberg

" I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. "

Natalie Imbruglia

" I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez. "

Michaela Watkins

" I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me. "

" Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. "

John C. Maxwell

" I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date. "

Zooey Deschanel

" In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. "

Gertrude Jekyll

" Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. "

" No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. "

" However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. "

" Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. "

Alfred Korzybski

" I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. "

" The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. "

William Butler Yeats

" We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. "

" Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. "

Donella Meadows

" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. "

Philip Zimbardo

" Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. "

" I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place. "

" It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. "

" You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. "

" Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. "

Arnold Rothstein

" I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.' "

" Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. "

Reinhold Niebuhr