Me Alone Quotes - Page 3

• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  Pat Nixon

  Talking, Mad, Leave Me Alone

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• You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Grief, Rocks, Over You

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.136, Ballantine Books

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• I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

  George Lopez

  Lonely, Wife, Needs

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• 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

  Grief, Grieving, Alone Time

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

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Regret, Sunset

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, People, Kind

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• What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Way

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• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Leave Me Alone, Looks

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• I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

  Louie Gohmert

  School, Government, Long

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• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

  Christy Turlington

  Hypnosis, Acupuncture, Patches

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• I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  Fiona Apple

  Needs, Kind, Problem

  "I Don't Really Have A Plan". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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• Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Let Me

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• People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  People, Mad, Leave Me Alone

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

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• I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

  George Strait

  Careers, People, Want

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• I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

  Joseph Barbera

  Kids, More Time, Alone Time

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

  Patti LaBelle

  Funny, Humorous, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 24, 2013

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• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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• This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

  Meg Cabot

  Athlete, Artist, People

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• I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

  Elias Koteas

  Leave Me Alone, Tears, Watches

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 29, 2011.

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• [Gandhi] said, "I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him."

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Believe, People

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Home, Humor

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. June 10, 2006.

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