Isolated Quotes - Page 5

• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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• No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

  Pope Francis

  Community, Individual, Participation

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

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• The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

  Alan Watts

  Independent, Knowing, Ego

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It’s a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don’t choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don’t want to be later.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Decisions You Make, Choices, Events

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• Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.

  Sid Grossman

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Philosophical, Reality, Groups

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

  Gabby Douglas

  Home, Eye, Night

  "Gabby Douglas' Interview With Oprah Winfrey Sparks Firestorm Online". www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 28, 2012.

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.

  Freeman Dyson

  Kings, Cancer, Hands

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• When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Law, Accepted

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.87, A&C Black

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• I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

  Mike Rutherford

  Moving, Communication, Leaving

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• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Loss, Science, Parent

  Ernst Mayr (1942). “Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.

  Theodore Epp

  Believer

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

  Linda Gordon

  Fighting, People, Together

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• When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Trying, Important, Stones

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• I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Poet, Felt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

  Rudy Rucker

  Lonely, Cutting, Simple

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• Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.

  Sandra Dodd

  Real, School, Sleep

  Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.312, Lulu.com

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• We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Men, Islands, Remember

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Years, Two

  "A President All Alone". www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

  David Brooks

  People, Brilliant, Figures

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Thinking, England, Debate

  Speech in the Canadian House of Assembly, February 5, 1896.

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• The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

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