Left Alone Quotes - Page 9

• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

  Maya Angelou

  Indecision, Threat, Eternal

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• The visual stuff just lives inside of you. As far as really being able to take care of an actor on a set, how to talk to an actor, and how to get what you need out of a scene is probably where I might know a thing or two. Although, in TV, the actors are pretty much left alone. It's really the writer's medium more than anything.

  Drea de Matteo

  Two, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that hurt you? Can you be angry at the stick? Of course not. Should you be angry at the wielder of the stick? Wouldn't it make more sense to be angry at the hatred in the mind of the stick wielder? If you think about it, isn't the end of hatred in the world what you want most of all? Why, then, would you add to it by giving energy to your anger? After all, it will pass on its own if left alone, especially if you respond to it with compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Needs, Animal Rights

  "Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry" by Carla Hall, www.latimes.com. July 19, 2008.

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• It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.

  Frederic Farrar

  Husband, Journey, Imagination

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!

  Curt Schilling

  People, Complicated, Free Market

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• What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....

  David Duke

  Country, Ku Klux Klan, Needs

  Interview with Evelyn Rich, March 1985.

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• My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.

  Jay Gould

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.

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• I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Independent, Rights

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.37, Hoover Institution Press

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• Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Left, Interfere

  "Fictional character: Innkeeper". "Dracula", 1958.

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• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

  Russell Simmons

  Compassion, People, Giving

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

  Olaus Murie

  Wise, Land, Numbers

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• There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

  Robert Breault

  Solitude, Want, Left

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• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Home, School

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• I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.

  Nelson Gidding

  Night, Bumps, Left Out

  Nelson Gidding, Robert Wise (1980). “The Haunting: Screenplay”

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• We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Ambition, Men, People

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• It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

  Billy Idol

  Money, Clothes, Matter

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

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• Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

  Alan Watts

  Water, Mind, Trying

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• One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well, I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world...

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  "A Win-Win Election" by James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 4, 2012.

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• However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Sick, Diversity, People

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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• Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.

  Bill W.

  Growing Up, And Love, Degrees

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