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  • You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. -- K. D. Lang
  • Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. -- Coco Chanel
  • Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. -- Charles Stanley
  • I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be. -- Sondre Lerche
  • Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone -- Sophie Scholl
  • A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration. -- Peter Paul Rubens
  • Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said. -- Kristin Hannah
  • Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. -- Martin Luther
  • Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help). -- Yasmin Mogahed
  • The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. -- Michael Caine
  • The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. -- Margaret Chase Smith
  • Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name. -- John Fante
  • Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
  • True genius without heart is a thing of naught - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul of genius. -- Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  • Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. -- W. Clement Stone
  • Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress. -- Lois Wyse
  • We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath. -- Michael Irvin
  • Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. -- Charles R. Swindoll
  • I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. -- Leslie Nielsen
  • The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?' -- Chris Van Allsburg
  • A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. -- Graham Coxon
  • The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. -- Ellen J. Barrier
  • Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. -- Aeschylus
  • Blue Moon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own. -- Lorenz Hart
  • The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. -- Jimmy Carter
  • The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island. -- Cassandra Clare
  • It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. -- Gloria Allred
  • Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root. -- Nora Roberts
  • And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone. -- Lauren Oliver
  • When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you. -- Tori Amos
  • I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. -- Barney Ross
  • That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing. -- Galcher Lustwerk
  • A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others. -- Frances Moore Lapp?
  • Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others. -- Frances Moore Lapp?
  • Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. -- Criss Jami
  • Faith is believing that there's somebody there to make you stronger. There's somebody there that won't leave you alone; God's always standing by you. That's what that is. -- Kyle Petty
  • Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside. -- Mariah Carey
  • I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows. -- Suzanne Young
  • The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go? -- Chris Van Allsburg
  • Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease. -- Susan Sontag
  • Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach. -- Ron Brackin
  • Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, "?Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.' -- John Gierach
  • It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. -- Anne Rice
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