Top 100 Lone Man Quotes
#1. Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.
Simon Bolivar
#2. When I saw several thugs attack a lone man, or a larger man a small one, or even when a mastiff attacked a toy Pomeranian, not virtue but plain disgust upset my insides. This early variety of defeatism later became an obsolete trait - damaging me in today's world.
Ernst Junger
#3. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
Irving Stone
#4. Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey; a lone man makes hardly any money.
Vinita Kinra
#5. An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.
Joyce Carol Oates
#6. For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
Tom Lehrer
#7. Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage
(From LONE WOLF, p.50)
Len Webster
#8. I found my destination a few miles outside Swelling: a lone, squat, brown bar called The Inn of the Line...The place looked like a dive. Maybe even a plunge. Hell, it was a drowning accident.
Elliott James
#9. Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of his wings. They are not shaped like a bird's wings. It's a giant bat-wing shape. My heart speeds up with my need to shout out to him. Could
Susan Ee
#10. One lone tear streaked over the rose of her cheek and dropped to her collar, staining the cotton dark. Helen
Kelly Robson
#11. The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.
George Preston Marshall
#12. So," Kate said, and I looked to her. "It's like Joe bein' the Lone Wolf, and Mawdy and us gettin' in there, and he's still hot and cool, but he's got us.
Kristen Ashley
#13. I have no prejudice against male or female.
John Lone
#14. There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
Michael McCaul
#15. Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train through the Bronx and seeing among the piles of crushed cars a pasture with a lone white horse.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#16. I was a lone wolf. Or at least a lone dragon anyway. We liked to work alone. Others would merely cramp our style. Or steal our treasure.
Helen Harper
#17. Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#18. Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.
Debolina Bhawal
#19. If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#21. Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
Alan Furst
#22. As far as Rachel Tracey was concerned, builders who tried their luck with lone women were pretty low down on the evolutionary ladder. She
Kate Ellis
#23. I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
John Lone
#24. First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.
Walter Isaacson
#25. Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker of an instant, the lone explorer in me longed to be out there alone with just a 4x4.
Alan Paul
#26. The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. ... The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.
Ernst Alexanderson
#27. Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that ... Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.
Andrew Vachss
#28. Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
Harpo Marx
#29. Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so lone as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant; they are interested in form only.
Henri Poincare
#30. I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
John Lone
#32. The guy is a total idiot. Forget him," Luke said, and wiped the lone tear that was running down her cheek. "I promise I won't ever do that to you."
"Please don't make promises if you can't keep them," she said, feeling her guard going up a little.
"I always keep my promises.
Kat Green
#33. I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes ... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
John Lone
#34. We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
#35. When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.
Emily Dickinson
#36. We found out later that a lone Black juror had refused to convict us. He had heard us.
Assata Shakur
#37. First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This
Walter Isaacson
#38. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#40. I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#41. Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
William Butler Yeats
#42. Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
Barbara Lee
#43. Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.
PureDragonWolf
#44. Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
Cyril Wecht
#45. Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.
Jim Croce
#46. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.
Lee Child
#47. It rolls in grandeur lone
The stream of Time;
And on its shores lie strown
The wrecks of every clime.
Harvey Rice
#48. I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#49. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
Dan Wells
#50. It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
Alexander Fleming
#51. He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute.
Thomas Kibble Hervey
#52. The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized ... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.
Erwin Griswold
#53. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.
Sheryl G. Feinstein
#54. Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
Laurie Graham
#55. Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn't my mother, but still I wasn't frightened because I could see that it was a woman.
Jamaica Kincaid
#56. somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far
Eliza Knight
#57. Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.
Russell Kirk
#58. The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.
Robert W. Service
#59. Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.
Beth Kephart
#60. Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil.
Greg Gutfeld
#61. Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman.
Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'
Sunday, May 31, 1992
Audrey Niffenegger
#62. Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of my life, the memory of the lone murder I had committed weighed heaviest on my mind.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')
Gaito Gazdanov
#63. How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
Hermann Hesse
#64. If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
Tana French
#65. Every flight is a gamble. If we don't smash into a cloud bound hillside, we might be picked off like a defenceless lamb by a lone wolf Messerschmitt with a gaping maw painted on its fuselage.
Kate Lord Brown
#66. The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.
Roland Burrage Dixon
#67. An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.
John Lone
#68. When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.
Duane Chapman
#69. I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.
James Badge Dale
#70. She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
Markus Zusak
#71. A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#72. I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
John Lone
#73. The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
#74. Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.
James Cotton
#75. Suspicious of the lone bat, he glanced behind to check there wasn't a black cloaked figure standing behind him with two long sharp teeth. Much to his relief, there was not. His love of horror films was definitely waning. With
Ben Hammott
#76. But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
J.K. Rowling
#77. She is silk in a bed of mail-order satin. Complete and seamless, an egg of sexual muscle. My motions atop her are dislocated, frantic, my lone interstice a trans-cultural spice of encouragement I smell with my spine. As, inside it, I go, I cry out to a god whose absence I have never felt to keenly.
David Foster Wallace
#78. 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
#79. I left smiles on your wordless lips
The night roads- dismal and narrow,
dream's path remains shadowy wide
as our lone hearts felt that arrow
From the Poem 'My Tomorrow
Munia Khan
#80. Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. Being a "lone wolf" has is advantages you can look from outside in and the inside out, you can get a sense for something from the clarity of being an outsider. You are free from the constraints of negative influence.
Paul Isaacs
#82. They're similar to the human idea of the sandman. They used to help people sleep. Now they're more prone to creating nightmares that end in death. Lucky's description of the dream weavers.
Jami Brumfield
#83. The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#84. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Charles Dickens
#85. guilt. The first announcement of Oswald as the lone assassin,
Barry Ernest
#86. Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it is nothing more than a thin coat of sacred paint slapped over politics and the secular lust for power.
Steven Erikson
#87. My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
Carrie Fisher
#88. Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
Steven Weber
#90. Home was that lone house on its great bend of Chatham River, no destination anymore but only the source of a vague sadness he thought of as "homegoing," a returning to the lost paradise of true belonging.
Peter Matthiessen
#91. One lone bubble floated toward her. In its curves, she saw the reflection of every color around her, a circular prism. She was that bubble. Tossed by the win in every direction. Reflecting all the people around her, all the things happening to her. All but herself.
Jessica Shook
#92. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
Karin Slaughter
#93. I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone Assassin. I am Ezio Auditore Da Firenze. This is my Brotherhood.
Oliver Bowden
#94. And the lone Jedi that exists - the son of Anakin Skywalker - possesses an untouchable soul. At least for now.
Chuck Wendig
#95. You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.
Jodi Picoult
#96. I held my head back and looked upward. The moon was hidden and only a lone star dared to break through the darkness.
Nancy B. Brewer
#97. His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she'd never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. "You have me," she whispered. All of me.
Nalini Singh
#98. I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
John Lone
#99. A lone surfer, barely floating above an empty ocean.
That's what it feels like in my soul."
--Kenna, Flame (Fireborn #1)
Mari Arden
#100. The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.
David Wong
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