Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

I prize the privilege of being alone.

William Wilberforce

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Edward Abbey

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Alberto Giacometti

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Paul Boyce

Our goal is to continue providing the American soldier with the best, most protective body armor in the world. We are working with soldiers, commanders, the medical community and industry to continue these improvements while ensuring the safety of our soldiers.

Tim Kaine

We now know that the American people were given inaccurate information about the reasons for invading Iraq. We now know that our troops in Iraq were not given the best body armor or the best intelligence.

Tom Shales

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

Jeff Foster

That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though.

Ken Tower

Maybe that is the first chink in the armor of the uptrend of crude oil prices,

Ben Stein

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

Tony Russell

Going back to the Middle Ages, developing armor has involved a constant balance between the need for protection and the need for comfort, flexibility and light weight.

Jim Kelly

He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.

Gene Jones

We try to help veterans who are having trouble getting benefits. We're concerned about troops sent to Iraq without oil to lubricate their guns or correct body armor for their vehicles.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

C. S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Carl Jung

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Anton LaVey

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.