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Saturday, May 25th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Isolation'

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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdallah II, -
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A. R. Ammons, American Poet
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan, Statesman (1938-  )
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin, American Actor (1956-  )
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.
Adam Arkin, American Actor (1956-  )
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.
Martha Beck, American Author (1962-  )
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
William Bernbach, American Businessman (1911-1982)
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.
Earl Blumenauer, American Politician (1948-  )
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist (1918-  )
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.
Louise Brooks, American Actress (1906-1985)
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Politician (1928-  )
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician (1958-  )
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Paul Cezanne, French Artist (1839-1906)
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.
John Bates Clark, American Economist (1847-1938)
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.
Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier (1780-1831)
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Jared Diamond, American Author (1937-  )
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.
Eleanora Duse, Italian Actress (1858-1924)
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Luke Ford, Australian Writer (1966-  )
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican Statesman (1948-  )
 
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