While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left's tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture alone won't save us from racism.
— Ash Sarkar
We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together.
— Arvind Kejriwal
My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.
— Arunachalam Muruganantham
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.
— Arthur L. Herman
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
— Ariel Dorfman
Just going to Comic-Con alone, that's an unreal experience on its own. I think if everyone in the world could experience that place, it would change their outlook. It's just one big lovefest. It's pretty incredible.
— Ari Millen
I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I've never really had a bad roommate situation.
— Ari Graynor
Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.
— Arbaaz Khan
I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.
— Anya Taylor-Joy
Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.
— Antonio Guterres
I would want to do a cooking show. But I want to honor the opportunity that's been given to me with 'Queer Eye.' I feel like my work is cut out for me with the show alone. If it ever goes bust, then I'll explore that possibility.
— Antoni Porowski
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
— Anthony Minghella
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
— Anthony Holden
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
— Anthony Burgess
I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.
— ASAP Ferg
Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.
— Arundhati Roy
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
— Arthur Erickson
Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.
— Art Buchwald
Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.
— Ariel Winter
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
— Arianna Huffington
At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
— Aretha Franklin
When you are living alone then you tend to take life casually.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
— Antonio Porchia
When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.
— Antonio Conte
I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
— Anthony McCarten
It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.
— Anthony Goldbloom
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
— Annie Dillard
Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
— Asafa Powell
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
— Arthur Laffer
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
— Arnold Rothstein
You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them.
— Ariel Pink
I'm a bit of an introvert, so after talking for an hour and then shaking hands and taking pictures with the people who came out, I kind of need to be alone for a bit to get away from all stimuli.
— Ari Shaffir
I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
— Archibald MacLeish
If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.
— Arancha Gonzalez
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
— Anton Chekhov
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
— Anthony Marra
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
— Anthony de Mello
