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Quotes About Isolated

This poor little one-horse town.
~ S. L. Clemens
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
~ Moshe Katsav
Those warehouses across the way look deserted anyway.
~ Suzanne Collins
Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.
~ Hiro Murai
The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.
~ Neal Shusterman
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
I'm so misunderstood!
~ Cate Blanchett
Theirs was, rather, a more narrowly focused life, anchored in and structured by Franciscan piety and the immediate challenges of missionary life. Some of these missionaries were, by the standards of any age, admirable men. Others were narrow-minded, even bigoted, regarding Native Americans as little more than children. All of them were leading lonely, isolated lives in a frequently forgotten place.
~ Kevin Starr
He is very calm very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
~ Kofi Atta Annan
It is interesting that a pair of isolated pulses yields a stable system: the emis- sion of two diverging digital particles (Fig. 19). Appar- ently only certain configura- tions are possible, while oth- ers are excluded or provide no stable results. This bears a certain similarity to some situations in quantum mechanics.
~ Konrad Zuse
In theory it's easy, but I still can't help but feel sidelined.
~ Carole Matthews
No one looked at him. No one spoke to him. No one paid him any mind. He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone.
~ George R.R. Martin
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
~ Charles Dickens
A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.
~ Alexander Woollcott
THE WALLFLOWER ORDER ATTEMPTS to meet the psychic plague by installing an anti-Jes Grew President, Warren Harding. He wins on the platform "Let's be done with Wiggle and Wobble,"* indicating that he will not tolerate this spreading infection. All sympathizers will be dealt with; all carriers isolated and disinfected, Immumo-Therapy will begin once he takes office.
~ Ishmael Reed
When you're filming on the road you literally are isolated for two weeks and you may go to Alaska or Atlanta or you may go to Florida.
~ Jo Frost
in exposing vulnerability we are always taking a chance and sometimes might get hurt ... the greater hurt, the real suffering, is in staying armored and isolated.
~ Tara Brach
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
~ Ernst Mayr
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
Even around my family, I hardly spoke. I was very reserved.
~ Malachi Kirby
He's just a pore lonesome wife-left fellar.
~ Nelson Algren
cold as a well-digger's ass in Maine.
~ Nelson DeMille
Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the maw of the clouds.
~ Victor Hugo
L'ideale è spaventoso a vedersi, così, perduto nelle profondità, piccolo, isolato, impercettibile, brillante ma circondato da tutte quelle grandi minacce nere mostruosamente ammassate intorno a esso. Eppure, esso non è più in pericolo di quanto non lo sia una stella tra le fauci delle nembi.
~ Victor Hugo