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Quotes About Isolated

Liraz was special. Specially antisocial. Spectacularly, even.
~ Laini Taylor
Comfortable with a wide range of people, close to very few.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.
~ Gloria Steinem
Granted, the Scott Paper story is one of the more dramatic in our study, but it's not an isolated case. In over two thirds of the comparison cases, we noted the presence of a gargantuan personal ego that contributed to the demise or continued mediocrity of the company.33
~ James C. Collins
From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
~ Lauren Tom
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.
~ Jason O'Mara
Preventing staff from having too much influence and decision-making power is fairly easy. Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.
~ Michael O'Rielly
I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
~ Thom Yorke
He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
~ Thomas Bernhard
In this pittifull (or rather pittilesse) perplexitie stood London, forsaken like a Lover, forlorne like a widow, and disarmde of all comfort.
~ Thomas Dekker
New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.
~ Kelly Macdonald
The change that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves against indoctrination, they can't even figure out what they think.
~ Noam Chomsky
Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
But now it's like I'm not really here. I'm just a witness, wayward and alone.
~ Chuck Wendig
She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.
~ Colson Whitehead
A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times.
~ Charles Dickens
on an actual kyber, which Zerpen had gone to great lengths and cost to acquire. Relatively rare, the so-called living crystals were almost exclusively the property of the Jedi, who seemed to regard the kyber as sacrosanct. Finger-sized ones powered their lightsabers, and larger ones were rumored to adorn the ornate façades of their isolated temples.
~ James Luceno
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.
~ Rick Renzi
There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
~ Dane Cook
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
~ Norton Juster
His other few possessions lay about in the grotto where chance had arranged them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
that curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor.
~ D.H. Lawrence