Best 91 quotes in «isolated quotes» category

As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe.

I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

It is people like me who are isolated.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

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.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

No one chair should be isolated.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves it to protect others.

But all this, all this shift and change, thought Bellamy, is part of the vast lie which surrounds me and wherein I move from one fantasy to another. I wanted to escape to solitude and darkness in a holy place, but the dark is just the old dark of meaninglessness and falsehood, which separates me from my friends and from the real world where people love and help each other.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

Aloneness – that is what SM feels like to me. Isolated, alone, separated, left out as I silently stand by watching others experience life while the words freeze inside me, afraid to speak up or join in a conversation. Actually feeling the anxiety shaking inside my chest as I try to get up the courage to speak to someone or call or text a friend. SM feels like the child standing alone behind the door watching the other kids in the playground – afraid to ask, 'may I play?' It feels like the teenager standing silently against the wall, listening to classmates laugh and chat, invisible to everyone and wondering what it would be like to have a friend. It feels like the 50-year-old office worker, alone in her cube while others chat and laugh in the aisle, still left out. I live inside a shell, a mask that looks like me, but isn't me. I am in here, but it is really hard to let others see. I'm so grateful for the few dear friends I have now. Most people, though, only see the shell and assume I'm aloof and uncaring because I am quiet. I feel very deeply. I feel others' joy and pain intensely, yet they rarely know. I'm not quiet because I am uncaring. I'm silent because I'm afraid.

But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.

But now more often the old stale hopeless weariness overcame him: the black sickness which almost no one else, certainly not his nearest dearest friends, could understand at all. The idea of giving up the world, which had given him for a time so much life-energy, appeared now as a sort of fake suicide, a ghastly play-image of his death. This fatal falseness-of-heart was what perhaps Father Damien, on further acquaintance, had now seen in him.

A savage sense entered me, of being of such small account in the world that I wasn't to be helped, that priest and woman and man had put out an edict that I wasn't to be helped, I was to be left to the elements, just as I was, a walking animal, forsaken. Maybe it was then that some part of me leapt away from myself, something fled from my brain, I don't know.