Top 66 Can Stand Alone Quotes
#1. I am not talking about spirituality, belief in God, or karma, but in my opinion those who can stand alone without the need for organised religion, are stronger than those who cannot.
Robert Black
#2. Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.
Roy Stryker
#3. Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.
Julian Johnson
#5. ... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
Louisa May Alcott
#6. When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
Don Rickles
#7. Vic stared at her, incredulous. "What do you mean you don't know why?" Vic asked her. "He isn't coming home because of you, Mom. Because he can't stand you. Because all you ever do is bitch at him, stand there and bitch when he's tired and wants to be left alone.
Joe Hill
#8. It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. - THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion
Jon Meacham
#9. We have to go get him," I said. "We can't just ... He can't stay down there; he doesn't like the dark; he can't stand the silence; he shouldn't have to be alone-
Alexandra Bracken
#10. Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down
Elvis Costello
#11. Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
Tom Robbins
#12. Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#13. It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Bette Davis
#14. Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness ...
Haruki Murakami
#15. You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you've done all you can do.
If you can't cope, I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight, I will hold you tight and I wont let go
Rascal Flatts
#16. I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.
David Letterman
#17. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.
Jerry Reed
#19. How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
Jim Morrison
#20. I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.
Elias Koteas
#21. I know you don't like to believe you ever need to be taken care of, but I can't stand the idea of you being sick and alone. I need to be here for you, babe.
Toni Blake
#22. You're never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony - you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You're among them, but also not. That's the best thing about balconies. The
Fredrik Backman
#23. The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
Billy Campbell
#24. When you think you're alone, when you think there's no one in this world who'll stand up for you, look around and make sure you're right. Friends can appear in the most unlikely people, and are often right in front of you.
Richard Thornton
#25. Even though I want to put distance between strangers and myself, I can't stand being alone.
Ryohgo Narita
#26. On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.
Thomas Bernhard
#28. No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.
Barbara Freethy
#29. If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
Natsuo Kirino
#30. I think I see my life already starting to write on my next decision the adventures of a loneliness which for the first time in years can stand being alone again.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#31. I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but also that you can have stand-alone episodes, where a story can have a beginning, middle and end.
Alex Kurtzman
#32. You can blame it all on fate and the universe, but in the end you alone decide if you're going to lie down and let hell take you under, or if you're going to stand strong in defiance of it all with your middle finger raised.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
Bob Brown
#34. Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed ... You can't go from people to nonpeople.
Philip K. Dick
#35. What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
Muriel Rukeyser
#36. Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
Arnold Rothstein
#37. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#38. If you can't stand to be alone with your thoughts, maybe there's something wrong with your thoughts.
Derek Landy
#39. If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold
Lucy Parsons
#40. When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in it as you can.
Patricia Cornwell
#41. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.
Paz De La Huerta
#43. I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.
Bill Watterson
#44. [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
John Adams
#45. You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.
Joan Bauer
#46. We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
John Abizaid
#47. There shall I recover beauty, and impose order upon my raked, my dishevelled soul? But what can one make in loneliness? Alone I should stand on the empty grass and say, Rooks fly
Virginia Woolf
#48. People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself.
James Jean-Pierre
#49. O LORD, God of our ancestors, you alone are the God who is in heaven. You are ruler of all the kingdoms of the earth. You are powerful and mighty; no one can stand against you!
Anonymous
#50. We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.
James Dobson
#51. If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive
then don't be a writer.
Graham Swift
#52. The only way we can survive is to work together. Each of us must play our part. The minute we stand alone, we fall alone.
Jo Cotterill
#53. As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.
David Wilkerson
#54. Unhappiness loves company. Unhappiness can't stand silence - especially not the uneasy silence that settles in when it is all alone.
Herman Koch
#55. Sometimes you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.
Monica Murphy
#56. Why do you even want to be here with me? You can barely stand to look at me for the most part, let alone be around me. I'm doing you a favor here, Nathan. I'm freeing you of me."
"Wait ... Stay."
"No."
"I'm not asking."
"I thought we were done."
"We'll never be done.
Samantha Towle
#57. People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#58. But I can't shake the feeling that, while they stand with me, there's no one beside me. Even with an army at my back, I am still alone.
Victoria Aveyard
#59. 'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.
Julie Kenner
#60. Whether it be cereal technology or candy technology or snack technology, puff snacks, I'm always curious to know how those things are made and how we can take that technology, those ingredients, and apply it to a stand-alone restaurant.
Wylie Dufresne
#61. And i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing. Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#63. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
#64. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
Celine Dion
#65. A person can always live life of his own only if he is prepared to stand alone when there is none to support the things that he applauds, believes and cherishes in his soul.
Anuj