Category: alone

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I’m not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.