Best 91 quotes in «isolated quotes» category

The best ideas rarely arise in one isolated mind, but rather develop in networks of curious and creative thinkers.

The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.

Waking up breaks my heart. Getting dressed breaks my arms. Joining the crowd breaks my legs. Letting someone in...does me in.

The presence of so many things which ought to have delighted her and been her friends brought home to Moy how little delight she could now feel and how alienated she now was from all the beings to which she had once felt so close.

Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with others. The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity. Repeatedly in the testimony of survivors there comes a moment when a sense of connection is restored by another person’s unaffected display of generosity. Something in herself that the victim believes to be irretrievably destroyed---faith, decency, courage---is reawakened by an example of common altruism. Mirrored in the actions of others, the survivor recognizes and reclaims a lost part of herself. At that moment, the survivor begins to rejoin the human commonality...

The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned to my theories. That Mizuko and I shared the pictorial equivalent of DNA. That a sympathetic magic existed between us, no matter how far apart we were pulled. That we defied physical laws of time and space, waves, gravity, the rules laid down by physicists which governed our physical universe (earthquakes, tsunamis) and physical bodies. And yet somehow our connection had led to the opposite of intimacy. My search had led to its opposite. I had never felt so isolated and disconnected, even from myself.

The same solution--that Easter Island was once part of a much larger landmass--would also explain another, very different puzzle, namely the so-called Rongo Rongo script. It is unprecedented in human history for a sophisticated fully developed writing system to be invented and put into use by a small, isolated island community. Yet Easter Island does have its own script, examples of which, mostly incised on wooden boards, copies of copies of copies of much older lost originals, were collected in the nineteenth century and have found their way into a number of museums around the world. None remain on Easter Island itself and even in the period when they were collected no native Easter Islanders were able to read them.

The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.

They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a 'suicidal lifestyle'. And yet they do this - and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a 'true' Christian. As if THEY are.

Try to understand how they feel - put yourselves in their place. Imagine you are in a foreign country with no money, possessions or friends. You cannot speak the language; the culture is completely different to your normal environment; isolated and helpless. You would be dependent on someone supporting you. Think of that when you next meet someone who is autistic...

We are approaching a time where the continents will go back to being isolated colonies, as climate change and global warming will make it too dangerous to travel internationally.

What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.

We learn that all life is scarce yet abundant. Profane yet sacred. Loving yet hateful. Enlightened yet obscured. Isolated yet collective. That life is somehow derived from love.

We were in the middle of nowhere, and in the back of beyond.

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

You can not hide on an island and expect that water will not find you.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

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.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is people like me who are isolated.

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.

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

No one chair should be isolated.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard