Isolation Quotes

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.