Quotes about Isolated

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Votes: 4

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies. Votes: 4

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. Votes: 4

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. Votes: 4

Isolated and limited vision problem. Votes: 3

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . Votes: 3

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. Votes: 3

The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states. Votes: 3

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that's on a good day. Votes: 3

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . . Votes: 3

Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences. Votes: 3

Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters. Votes: 3

Entertainment and art are not isolated Votes: 2

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. Votes: 2

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person. Votes: 2

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated Votes: 2

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. Votes: 2

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. Votes: 2

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Votes: 2

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 2

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. Votes: 2

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Votes: 2

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. Votes: 2

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated. Votes: 2

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional. Votes: 2

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. Votes: 2

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Votes: 2

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. Votes: 2

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. Votes: 2

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Votes: 2

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. Votes: 2

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. Votes: 2

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. Votes: 2

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. Votes: 2

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. Votes: 2

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. Votes: 2

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare. Votes: 2

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could. Votes: 2

Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation. Votes: 2

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. Votes: 2

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. Votes: 2

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Votes: 2

For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. Votes: 2

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life. Votes: 2

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. Votes: 2

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence. Votes: 2

Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. Votes: 2

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games. Votes: 2

One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. Votes: 2

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. Votes: 2

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions. Votes: 2

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. Votes: 2

I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way. Votes: 2

Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody. Just at the social level. I felt pretty isolated here, I really did. Votes: 2

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you. Votes: 2

No one chair should be isolated ... Votes: 0

Australia is the most isolated continent. Votes: 0

No believer lives a spiritually isolated life. Votes: 0

It is people like me who are isolated. Votes: 0

Being an artist is being an isolated individual. Votes: 0

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore Votes: 0

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. Votes: 0

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. Votes: 0

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard Votes: 0

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others. Votes: 0

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents. Votes: 0

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused. Votes: 0

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level. Votes: 0

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind. Votes: 0

Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism. Votes: 0

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated. Votes: 0

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom. Votes: 0

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess Votes: 0

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps. Votes: 0

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. Votes: 0

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. Votes: 0

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. Votes: 0

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? Votes: 0

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. Votes: 0

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off. Votes: 0

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. Votes: 0

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. Votes: 0

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide. Votes: 0

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. Votes: 0

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people. Votes: 0

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Votes: 0

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. Votes: 0

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. Votes: 0

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games. Votes: 0

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. Votes: 0

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone. Votes: 0

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. Votes: 0

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated. Votes: 0

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. Votes: 0

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. Votes: 0

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. Votes: 0

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. Votes: 0

The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future. Votes: 0

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated. Votes: 0

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Votes: 0

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. Votes: 0

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him. Votes: 0

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances. Votes: 0

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced. Votes: 0

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. Votes: 0

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships Votes: 0

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative. Votes: 0

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy. Votes: 0

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. Votes: 0

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that. Votes: 0

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated? Votes: 0

I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy! Votes: 0

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals. Votes: 0

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. Votes: 0

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen. Votes: 0

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. Votes: 0

Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen. Votes: 0

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. Votes: 0

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. Votes: 0

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. Votes: 0

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. Votes: 0

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. Votes: 0

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult. Votes: 0

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it. Votes: 0

No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out. Votes: 0

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory. Votes: 0

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. Votes: 0

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind. Votes: 0

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated. Votes: 0

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe. Votes: 0

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. Votes: 0

Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet! Votes: 0

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. Votes: 0

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. Votes: 0

This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated. Votes: 0

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. Votes: 0

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment. Votes: 0

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before. Votes: 0

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. Votes: 0

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking. Votes: 0

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature. Votes: 0

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. Votes: 0

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature. Votes: 0

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents. Votes: 0

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work. Votes: 0

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. Votes: 0

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. Votes: 0

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. Votes: 0

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel. Votes: 0

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time. Votes: 0

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. Votes: 0

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. Votes: 0

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. Votes: 0

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. Votes: 0

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Votes: 0

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. Votes: 0

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. Votes: 0

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. Votes: 0

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Votes: 0

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. Votes: 0

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. Votes: 0

What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world? Votes: 0

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. Votes: 0

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled. Votes: 0

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him. Votes: 0

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. Votes: 0

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different. Votes: 0

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication. Votes: 0

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over. Votes: 0

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. Votes: 0

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. Votes: 0

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. Votes: 0

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated. Votes: 0

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak. Votes: 0

The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes. Votes: 0

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. Votes: 0

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. Votes: 0

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures. Votes: 0

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. Votes: 0

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. Votes: 0

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated. Votes: 0

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. Votes: 0

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually. Votes: 0

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. Votes: 0

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. Votes: 0

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. Votes: 0

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment. Votes: 0

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Votes: 0

Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in. Votes: 0

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. Votes: 0

Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like. Votes: 0

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God. Votes: 0

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth. Votes: 0

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. Votes: 0

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. Votes: 0

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. Votes: 0

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture Votes: 0

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued. Votes: 0

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. Votes: 0

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. Votes: 0

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less. Votes: 0

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place. Votes: 0

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; Votes: 0

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over. Votes: 0

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated. Votes: 0

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today. Votes: 0

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development. Votes: 0

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment. Votes: 0

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole? Votes: 0

If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're doing. Votes: 0

People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed. Votes: 0

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said. Votes: 0

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. Votes: 0

And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated. Votes: 0

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Votes: 0

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well. Votes: 0

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend. Votes: 0

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular. Votes: 0

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. Votes: 0

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. Votes: 0

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do. Votes: 0

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. Votes: 0

I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production. Votes: 0

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history! Votes: 0

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want. Votes: 0

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. Votes: 0

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. Votes: 0

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. Votes: 0

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved. Votes: 0

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. Votes: 0

Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community. Votes: 0

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? Votes: 0

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated. Votes: 0

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand. Votes: 0

Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected. Votes: 0

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention. Votes: 0

India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues. Votes: 0

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. Votes: 0

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. Votes: 0

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority. Votes: 0

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science. Votes: 0

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it. Votes: 0

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria. Votes: 0

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. Votes: 0

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state. Votes: 0

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out. Votes: 0

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use. Votes: 0

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start. Votes: 0

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. Votes: 0

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement. Votes: 0

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. Votes: 0

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act. Votes: 0

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. Votes: 0

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. Votes: 0

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated. Votes: 0

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not. Votes: 0

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins. Votes: 0

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone. Votes: 0

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed. Votes: 0

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves. Votes: 0

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other. Votes: 0

An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men. Votes: 0

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego. Votes: 0

I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded. Votes: 0

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director. Votes: 0

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television. Votes: 0

I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure. Votes: 0

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Votes: 0

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles. Votes: 0

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination. Votes: 0

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro. Votes: 0

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example. Votes: 0

The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers." Votes: 0

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction. Votes: 0

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it. Votes: 0

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language. Votes: 0

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. Votes: 0

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it. Votes: 0

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach." Votes: 0

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure. Votes: 0

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me. Votes: 0

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. Votes: 0

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach. Votes: 0

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me. Votes: 0

There's good evidence that if people are disempowered, if they have little control over their lives, if they're socially isolated or unable to participate fully in society, then there are biological effects. Votes: 0

I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.' Votes: 0

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another. Votes: 0

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems". Votes: 0

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry Votes: 0

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit. Votes: 0

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. Votes: 0

Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before. Votes: 0

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. Votes: 0

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not. Votes: 0

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons. Votes: 0

I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren't isolated, and I've always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals. Votes: 0

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Votes: 0

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community. Votes: 0

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served. Votes: 0

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless. Votes: 0

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position. Votes: 0

There's no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism. Votes: 0

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out. Votes: 0

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America. Votes: 0

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect. Votes: 0

I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew. Votes: 0

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. Votes: 0

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow. Votes: 0

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Votes: 0

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. Votes: 0

We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible. Votes: 0

The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from. Votes: 0

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. Votes: 0

If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade. Votes: 0

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated. Votes: 0

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal. Votes: 0

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme. Votes: 0

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically. Votes: 0

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all. Votes: 0

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function Votes: 0

I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out, Votes: 0

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long. Votes: 0

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell. Votes: 0

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before. Votes: 0

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects. Votes: 0

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other. Votes: 0

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking. Votes: 0

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control. Votes: 0

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. Votes: 0

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Votes: 0

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide. Votes: 0

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong. Votes: 0

A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down. Votes: 0

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated. Votes: 0

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile. Votes: 0

...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another. Votes: 0

If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely. Votes: 0

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com. Votes: 0

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. Votes: 0

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort. Votes: 0

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was. Votes: 0

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. Votes: 0

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. Votes: 0

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through. Votes: 0

Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart. Votes: 0