Isolated Quotes

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.