Isolated Quotes - Page 9

• What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Pawns, Retarded, Weak

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• People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

  Richard Avedon

  People, Confusion, Roles

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• I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

  Saoirse Ronan

  People, World, Way

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• I have no friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble. It's easy when you feel upset or depressed about something to want to go to a club and want to drink, but instead I just force myself to sit and feel it and deal with it, and try to grow from it, because I don't want to go down that path. I'm one of the most isolated people in existence right now, but it's worth it because if I wasn't making that decision I would be throwing away my career.

  Megan Fox

  Careers, People, Choices

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

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• There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

  John Hillaby

  Rocks, Tree, Caves

  John Hillaby (1974). “Journey Through Europe”, Academy Chicago Pub

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• I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Mean, Men

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• I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

  Victoria Chang

  Community, West Coast, Spread

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Math, Ties, Interesting

  "Preface to Eisenstein's Mathematische Abhandlungen", Berlin, 1847.

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• Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.

  Mao Zedong

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

  David Cassidy

  Media, World, Kind

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• Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

  Charles Sturt

  Country, Men, Space

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.48

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• To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

  Clarence Darrow

  Love, Lonely, Age

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• Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!

  Francois Arago

  Nature, Spring, Cutting

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264

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• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Work, Littles, Mathematical

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

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• I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

  David Bowie

  Lonely, Hate, Writing

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• No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Crush, Atheist, Loneliness

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• The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. On our side, we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.

  Hans Blix

  Home, Thinking, Discovery

  "Excerpts from inspectors' reports to U.N.", www.cnn.com. January 27, 2003.

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• I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Needs, Energy

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• There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

  James Cameron

  Frontiers

  "James Cameron's historic solo dive". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Thinking, Needs, Nuclear

  "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.

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• My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mother, Son, Grandchildren

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• Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Home, Responsibility

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

  Anne Hathaway

  Princess, Diaries, Film

  The Associated Press Interview, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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