A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
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!
Obama set a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants in 2011, but that fact alone is misleading. Obama has spoken in favor of and has urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow young undocumented immigrants to stay in America, their home, and achieve citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.
Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up 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.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
No matter your religion or what your political views are, I think there's one thing we can all agree on. Most human beings are not meant to be alone. I know I'm not.
Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
To be adult is to be alone.
All we ask is to be let alone.
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
I do recall one moment when I went to India by myself. I was paralyzed with fear to travel alone, but I had this intuitive hint that I had to do it. It was transformative and beautiful.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.