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  • Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

    Focus   Mind   Affection  
    Bill Hybels (1993). “Laws of the Heart”, Victor Books
  • And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

    Source: collider.com
  • Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

  • What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that hurt you? Can you be angry at the stick? Of course not. Should you be angry at the wielder of the stick? Wouldn't it make more sense to be angry at the hatred in the mind of the stick wielder? If you think about it, isn't the end of hatred in the world what you want most of all? Why, then, would you add to it by giving energy to your anger? After all, it will pass on its own if left alone, especially if you respond to it with compassion.

    Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.96, Ballantine Books
  • And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

    Stars   World   Normal  
    Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”
  • Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

    Prayer   Pain   Real  
    George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15
  • I want to be left alone.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

    Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.25, Hachette UK
  • A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

  • Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

    Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.
  • I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

    Wise   Hate   Psychology  
  • I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

  • Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.

    Art   Pain   Taken  
    "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.
  • Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

    Running   Kings   Men  
    Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan
  • Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.

    "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers".
  • When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.

    Passion   Self   Space  
    Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, p.15, Conari Press
  • If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.

    Talking   Light   Safe  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

    Thinking   Two   People  
    Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
  • Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

    Children   Night   Light  
    Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.451, Wizards of the Coast
  • If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.

    Would Be   Ears   Lord  
  • The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

    Truth   Knowledge   Hands  
    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.320, Hoover Press
  • Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

    Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.
  • The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

  • It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband.

  • Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

    "Fictional character: Innkeeper". "Dracula", 1958.
  • I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

    "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.
  • To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

    Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House
  • I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

    Long   Records   Enough  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

    Solitude   Want   Erikson  
  • One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

    Book   Enjoy   Left Alone  
    Source: www.nobelprize.org
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