Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
— Annie Dillard
I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.
— Anne Sweeney
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
— Anne Frank
I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.
— Annaleigh Ashford
I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.
— Anna Todd
Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.
— Anna Nicole Smith
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
— Anna Held
Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.
— Ann Maxwell
You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.
— Ann Leckie
In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.
— Anjelica Huston
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
— Angelina Jolie
I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.
— Angela Rayner
Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
— Angela Ahrendts
The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'
— Andy Dunn
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
— Anne Spencer
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
— Anne Lamott
I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
— Anne F. Beiler
There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
— Annalee Newitz
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
— Anna Pavlova
I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.
— Ann Hood
I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.
— Anita Shreve
I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.
When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.
— Angela Featherstone
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
— Angel Olsen
'You're not alone' can be a great thing to hear when you're feeling quite despondent and alienated from the world and yourself. But if you're someone who's been completely overwrought with the intensity of life and the world, getting some space to be alone can be one of the things you crave most.
— Andrew W.K.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
— Anne Hathaway
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
— Anne Bronte
I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over words alone. I'd rather share my pain with people.
I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.
— Anna Paquin
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
— Anna Neagle
If your goal is to look different, you'll see results faster with strength training than with cardio alone.
— Anna Kaiser
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.
I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
— Angus Deaton
Technology has flattened a world where trans people are demanding their rights in the U.S. and abroad. TransTech Social Enterprises is here to empower, educate, and employ them no matter where they are. I could not turn down an opportunity for global exposure that our efforts alone might not have ever afforded us.
— Angelica Ross
People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.
— Angela Cartwright
Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.
— Andy Serkis
