Isolation Quotations | Page 2

The great religions were not born in isolation from one another; they cannot survive in isolation from one another.

The Iranian people do not deserve isolation, but it is isolation which they will get because of the actions of their government.

The man is being kept in isolation and his condition is being closely monitored by infection control specialists.

The main thing we didn't want was to let those guys settle into isolation situations.

The judge then handed down three sentences of death -- one for each of the victims. After he said it, I was wondering, how are they going to kill me three times? I was transferred to the death row facility. When I arrived at the facility, I was housed in isolation from the general population. I was in shock. I was in a different world.

And now, the day revolves around the show. It's a different mindset. You know, the rest of the guys in the band aren't sober. They're wild men in their own ways, and that leads to the isolation factor. But I'm not feeling particularly bad about it and I'm doing everything I can to take care of myself.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

It's not just simply looking at roads in isolation from airlines and rail. There has to be a comprehensive transportation approach and that's the opposite of what we've seen from the Liberals.

That sort of emergency doesn't present a power issue. That is an isolation issue.

We, in our own quite independent way, have pushed for more democracy in Cuba. We have done so on the basis of contact with Cuba, rather than isolation of Cuba,

It is very much a character piece and very much about relationships. A lot of the themes in the film are about isolation and love, with all the characters isolated in some way.

to abandon their isolation and agree, as the Albanians have done, to join the consulting governing bodies of the province which work with the international administration.

He brings huge experience but the challenge is not to have him doing it in isolation but also bringing those around him into the game.

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.

No practice exists in isolation.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

If he missed, we were going home, and the whole thing about New York probably would have changed. He had the guts to take it, and that wasn't the only big shot he took. When coach (Don) Chaney was here, we used to run isolation plays for him at the end of the game to catch the ball and go one-on-one. Do you know how tough that is? And he would make shots. He was tough.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place,

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece...

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

a weird combination of isolation and connection and disconnection; discomfort and awkwardness.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Isolation must precede true society.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.