Isolated Quotes

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

Isolated and limited vision problem.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.