The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
— Thornton Wilder
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
— Thomas Perry
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
— Thomas Merton
I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.
— Thomas McGuane
We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.
— Thomas Kean, Jr.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
Work alone is noble.
— Thomas Carlyle
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
— Thomas Browne
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
— Thelma Ritter
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
— Terry Goodkind
It was in Austin that I had the idea for 'Days of Heaven.' I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.
— Terrence Malick
I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.
— Teri Garr
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Disney truly stands alone, not only because of the company's phenomenal creativity, but also because of the thousands of remarkable people who make it such an extraordinary place.
— Thomas O. Staggs
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
— Thomas Love Peacock
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
— Thomas Hobbes
Better be alone than in bad company.
— Thomas Fuller
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor.
— Thomas Becket
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
— Theodore Gericault
To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
— Theodor Mommsen
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
— Terry Pratchett
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
— Terri Irwin
As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.
— Teri Hatcher
As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.
— Teresa Medeiros
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
— Thomas Wolfe
I don't typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it's silly. I just don't typically get caught up in it.
— Thomas Middleditch
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!
— Thomas Menino
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
— Thomas Kuhn
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.
— Thomas Heatherwick
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
— Thomas Frank
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
— Thomas Day
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
— Theodor Herzl
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
— Terry McMillan
I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.
— Terri Blackstock
I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.
