Quotes About Isolated

What is it with me? I seem to be an incorrigible black-listee.

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

The history of this place with three names–Byzantion or Byzantium (c. 670 BC to AD 330), Constantinople, al-Qustantiniyye then Kostantiniyye (c. AD 330 to 1930), Istanbul or Stimboli (c. AD 1453 onwards)–is often isolated into discrete blocks: ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman, Turkish.

misanthropic society

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

The area became known affectionately by the other recruits as simply: 'The asshole of the world.

I am at my best within my family fold. Outside, I am withdrawn, aloof and reserved.

I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.

I wouldn't say I'm a shy person, but I like my privacy.

On the other hand, to conduct oneself secretly when the conditions do not call for it, to avoid working with the non-communist masses and therefore refrain from taking a leading role in political work, to operate as an isolated clandestine organization and refuse to see the masses as the motive force of history.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

La nature sud-américaine a fabriqué, elle fabrique encore des hommes admirables, pauvres, dur à la peine: le gaucho de la pampa, le caboclo brésilien, le paysan mexicain, le peón (peão). (...) Le misérable isolé du monde par la nature, l'espace, ou sa seule misère, reste toujours le héros littéraire par excellence.

September 11 was not an isolated event, but a tragic prologue, Iraq another act, and many further struggles will be set upon this stage before it's over. There never has been a time when the power of America was so necessary or so misunderstood, or when, except in the most general sense, a study of history provides so little instruction for our present day.

Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love the profession, I admire people that do it. But like with any story if there's an isolated incident of wrongdoing, you have to shed light on it, to not shed light on it would be tribalism.

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.

What would later become modern Greece was at the time a backward and isolated province of the Ottoman Empire with few towns, far removed from all this intellectual ferment.

Johnson was fascinated by these bands—"They are so isolated, they can't help but develop their own sound

persona non grata.

She has the scared, hunted look of the unlucky.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

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

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

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