Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

C. S. Lewis

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Alan Ladd

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Bram Stoker

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

Darren Shan

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Deepak Chopra

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Celine Dion

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Arnold Rothstein

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

Albert Einstein

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Dalai Lama

Spend some time alone every day.

Desmond Tutu

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Don Williams

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

D. James

There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after work. A new guy could come in and see what the latest news was and what's going on in sports. Before people had TV and telephones it was one of the only meeting places we had; one of the only places to go and get local news.

Richard Smith

We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,

Mike Mason

There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.

Melissa Caldwell

We're just gathering and labeling information, ... We're not telling people what they should be offended by.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Susan Lyne

Music helps set the tone for any occasion. Martha's selections for this compilation will make any holiday gathering more festive.

Susan Lyne

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Gene Luen Yang

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.