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" The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! "

Maxine Kumin

Simple

Today

" I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone. "

Ashwin Sanghi

Always

Skills

" Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. "

" Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. "

" Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. "

" Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. "

" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "

Yves Saint Laurent

Alone

Classroom

" I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. "

" The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. "

" Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. "

" Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. "

" Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gardening

Plants

You

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

" I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone. "

" If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone. "

" Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them. "

" There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people. "

" I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. "

" A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. "

" I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. "

" You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! "

" We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. "

" Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation. "

" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

" I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. "

" When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company. "

" For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? "

" Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. "

" Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. "

" The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical. "