There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
I think that all the time I lived alone changed me.
I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
If we're constantly giving every one of our allies the woke test instead of inviting them to be more woke, we're doomed. You can be the most woke person of all time and be alone.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women's race - let alone as world champion.
I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.
I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.
Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.
Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.
You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.
Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?
Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.
Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.
Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.
America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.
I must admit that self-tanner is one beauty arena I've been hesitant to explore, let alone fully embrace.
