All Quotes

Solitude is the place of purification.
‐‐ Martin Buber

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Solitude is un-American.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
‐‐ Kevin Patterson

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
‐‐ Robert Cecil

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
‐‐ Moliere

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
‐‐ Thomas de Quincey

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
‐‐ Joseph Roux

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
‐‐ Derek Bailey

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
‐‐ Angus Young

'Solomon Creed' is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity.
‐‐ Simon Toyne

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.
‐‐ Julius Wellhausen

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

Solutions are not the answer.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

Solutions must be based on compromises.
‐‐ Joschka Fischer

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
‐‐ Laura Ingraham

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
‐‐ Malcolm Fraser

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
‐‐ Olivier Sarkozy

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
‐‐ Sergey Brin

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that's when we get flooded with even bigger problems.
‐‐ Thomas Frey

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
‐‐ Sean Parker

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
‐‐ K'naan

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.
‐‐ Billy Tauzin

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.
‐‐ Michael Mullen

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
‐‐ Aidan Quinn

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you don't.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
‐‐ Barry Levinson

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
‐‐ Alan J. Pakula

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.
‐‐ Richard Griffiths

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell