If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.
Nobody can commit photography alone.
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.
There`s no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.
I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all. . . the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk. - It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.
Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me. . . I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life. . . I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.
What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts to do something about climate change, but even worse, dedicated to making the situation worse. Every part of the world is trying to do something. The United States alone is trying to destroy it, and it's not just Trump, it's the whole Republican Party. You just can't find words for it. And it's not reported. It's not discussed.
We are not, and never need be, alone.
I am brave, though I am alone.
. . . being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left