Isolated Quotes

• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Connections

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Beautiful, Two

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Being Alone, People, Leave Me Alone

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• Australia is the most isolated continent.

  Jared Diamond

  Australia, Continents

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• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Able

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• I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

  James Taylor

  Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Persons

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• The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

  Meir Kahane

  Wish, Allies, Doe

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• I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

  Toni Collette

  Glad

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• Entertainment and art are not isolated

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Entertainment

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• I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

  Jean Alesi

  Moon, No Friends, Firsts

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• No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ideas, No Idea

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• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Valerie Solanas

  Community, Society, Units

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Should, Ifs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Age, Church

  Charles HODGE (D.D., of Princeton, New Jersey.) (1855). “What is Presbyterianism? An Address”, p.68

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• Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Divorce, Lawyer, Bigs

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

  Robert Crumb

  Revenge, World, Becoming

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• I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Law, Nineteen

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• Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, President

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• Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Divorce, Curiosity, Vision

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Historical, Criticism, Gestures

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• When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Character, Eye, Doors

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• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Giving, Special

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• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  Jasmine Guy

  Friendship, Country, Family Love

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