Quotes About Isolation

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

I was 20 years old went I went to the Premier League. When you are 20, you need from other people, you need people to talk to you. But when I went over there, nobody helped me.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.