When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
SIR WALTER SCOTT We need Walter to feel real good. I always feel good when he feels good. I'm going to be careful wit...
MIKE HOLMGREN The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot...
UNKNOWN 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.
SETH ADAM SMITH We are beside ourselves thinking about them,
ANDREW BUSCH I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous.
STEVE YOUNG It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
ALDOUS HUXLEY When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL He left the car alone and when he came back to the car it was gone.
DARREN BENITEZ me ... no me .. gone is gone , and i'm gone ..
alone is alone .. it's so bad to feel alone , b...
MAHDI KHMILI We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I loved him not; and yet now he is gone / I feel I am alone.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to...
PASCAL MERCIER Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our car...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I ca...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
TINA WEYMOUTH Although my mother had the greatest love for Sir Walter Scott, and the highest appreciation of his p...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
BRIAN TRACY Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.
NAOMI JUDD Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to re...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
WALTER SCOTT We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.
KAMAND KOJOURI When we think little of ourselves, we do little with ourselves. We must think bigger of ourselves to...
BRANDON A. TREAN we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot ass...
BRENNAN MANNING We deny ourselves the use of our thinking faculty when we begin to depend on the supernatural provis...
SUNDAY ADELAJA When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
KEANU REEVES One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
AGATHA CHRISTIE We are not born for ourselves alone.
UNKNOWN When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companion...
LANCE ARMSTRONG We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we...
THOMAS MERTON If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enrich...
GERALD COREY We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our deepest sense of contentment comes in those times when we have forgotten about all the things we...
GWEN RANDALL-YOUNG We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG (Saturday) also was about some of the guys who haven't been in this game before. Walter was here las...
JOE FENLON Scott's preparations have gone perfect. We respect Elcock and realise this guy is, outside of Eastma...
DAVE SMITH We hope we can take what we learned from (the Scott Central) game into this week. They (Scott Centra...
JUD GARTMAN Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA This is Texas. We don't have Walter Cronkite and Ted Kennedy whining about their back yards,
JERRY PATTERSON When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have f...
EDA J. LESHAN When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have f...
EDA J. LE SHAN Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and ...
AMY POEHLER Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thought...
JOHN LEMBO We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for o...
ROBERT ARNOT I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly wit...
JAMES CAAN We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.
AL HANNA We all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves and this is the mome...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
LEWIS MUMFORD When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
MITCH ALBOM I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 2...
RICHARD GOUGH When it's normal being alone, you'll never feel lonely.
HAIFA SANAD We humble ourselves every day because we remind ourselves we're in second place. We've played well, ...
ANDREW COSTON In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the wor...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes aro...
GEOFF LAWSON Hopefully, when he wakes up the headache will be gone and he will be back to his normal self and go ...
ALAN NOBLE Confidence, just another term used to describe how we feel about ourselves. Should it have been a te...
THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) At least I'm in the woods, ... I don't mind being alone. You get to thinking about things.
JAY ANDERSON Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
NALINI SINGH When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in...
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS Our families, the Scott and King families, have been chosen to lead what I feel is a movement toward...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner...
ALICE MCDERMOTT Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les...
TIM O'BRIEN We're ahead of where we started last year and we feel much, much better about ourselves. Last year t...
DAVE HAMMERICKSEN No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
BERNADETTE PETERS When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.
CRYSTAL WOODS The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin...
ERIC HOFFER The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin...
EDWARD GIBBON The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the be...
ERIC HOFFER The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin...
EDWARD GIBBON Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they ar...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle agai...
SOURCE UNKNOWN There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame ...
OSCAR WILDE When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush ...
TERESA R. FUNKE, BURSTS OF BRILLIANCE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE BLOG There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame ...
OSCAR WILDE To develop emotional and erotic intelligence we need to practice enlarging our inner passion at ever...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS A student to teacher: “I am so alone; I don’t know what to do?” Teacher: “Do not worry about...
SANTOSH KALWAR When we come from an authentic, genuine place in ourselves, our efforts to connect with people work ...
MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think....
ANTHONY HOPKINS We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We can't feel sorry about ourselves and take back what we did. We've just got to bounce back and win...
OLLI JOKINEN When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine...
MIZUKI NOMURA Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN I want to care, but I don’t.
I look at you and all I feel is tired.
ELIZABETH SCOTT To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We con...
ALBERT CAMUS We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes...
KAMAND KOJOURI The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begi...
ERIC HOFFER And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
BIBLE The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watchin...
ALEX WURMAN Not at all. We can only be concerned with ourselves. We are just trying to win every game. We aren't...
RICHARD HAMILTON If Scott is feeling any pressure he has done a good job of hiding it. I feel good about him. I am no...
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answer.
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Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
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But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
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Unless to mortal it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare.
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It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses.
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To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
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And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye...
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The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT