Staying Alone Quotes

#1. I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

Elana Dykewomon

#2. The best we can do is, treat people with sincere respect. Staying is their choice. If they want to leave, they've every right to.

Sarvesh Jain

#3. It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Joe Gibbs

#4. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.

Lina Andersson

#5. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. [i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT'S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

Chris Rock

#8. The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

Mallory Ortberg

#9. I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.

Emma Bunton

#10. Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Leah Braemel

#11. It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

Jackie Mason

#12. That's fine," he said. "Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill.

Jojo Moyes

#13. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

Meghan Wier

#14. You can't make silly people stay away from you; all you can do is staying away from them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

Dean Koontz

#16. I can reprint it. And ... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet."
The remorse fled quickly. "Over my dead body."
"Yeah, I thought you'd say that.

Samantha Young

#17. You don't get creative by staying in the same place.

Andy Law

#18. Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.

Debasish Mridha

#19. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#20. Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.

Bell Hooks

#21. The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.

Susan Ee

#22. Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Bella Thorne

#23. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole

#24. Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.

Bryant McGill

#25. I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

Jerry Seinfeld

#26. Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.

Steven Magee

#27. When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Beverly K. Bachel

#28. It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.

Erica Jong

#29. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

Salle Merrill Redfield

#30. It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.

Phoebe Tonkin

#31. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.

Scott Lynch

#32. Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Sean Faris

#33. Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

Brandy Norwood

#34. By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

John C. Maxwell

#35. I thought you didn't like staying after school."
"I didn't at first, but I kind of like it now."
"You do?"
He nodded. "Miss Andrews makes me feel special.

Nicholas Sparks

#36. Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!

Antonia Michaelis

#37. Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

Tom Irwin

#38. When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

Toby Kebbell

#39. There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Paul Pierce

#40. I think I speak for everyone when I say hell no, I'm staying

Jeaniene Frost

#41. Just make sure you're staying true to yourself, and do what you think is good in that craft or field [of yours] and then let everything else fall where it falls.

Brian Regan

#42. I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.

LeAnn Rimes

#43. I've never had a home before." That must have been all the sweets talking; I'd never have told him otherwise. "I mean, staying with Li, I never felt like I belonged. That's all."
Sam touched my wrist, making me shiver. "You always have a home with me.

Jodi Meadows

#44. Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Huineng

#45. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.

Mayank Kashyap

#46. Stop smiling," I grumbled. "Can't.""Were you this irritating when we met?""I was charming. Very charming.""Where did Mr. Charming go?""That guy didn't have staying power.""But Mr. Irritating? He'll stick around?""Unfortunately.

C.D. Reiss

#47. Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

C.E. Murphy

#48. Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward

Munia Khan

#49. I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

#50. I fly almost every week to and from Vancouver, so staying hydrated is super important.

Danielle Panabaker

#51. Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

#52. But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.

Cat Osterman

#53. Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.

Ava Gardner

#54. I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Eve Ensler

#55. You see, John, unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always be like that gambler in Las Vegas, staying at the roulette wheel for 'just one more spin' in the hope that your lucky number will come up. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?

Robin S. Sharma

#56. In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

Gail Simmons

#57. The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Harlan Ellison

#58. Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

#59. With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

Irvin D. Yalom

#60. I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

Rooney Mara

#61. We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.

Jan Koum

#62. I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

Valerie Trierweiler

#63. I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'
So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

Ann B. Ross

#64. Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.

Alex Gonzaga

#65. It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

Larry Hagman

#66. The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.

Justin Timberlake

#67. So that's what we're about then," I said. "Staying safe in our gated-community faith, where we make room for God. Well, you know what? It's a fantasy and a lie.

Nancy N. Rue

#68. If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Mona Sutphen

#69. I wasn't the demonstrative type. I didn't say I love you all the time, and I wasn't girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls' night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.

C.D. Reiss

#70. It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#71. Aria smiled shyly. "How long are you staying?"
"How long do you want me to stay?"
Forever, Aria wanted to say.

Sara Shepard

#72. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

John Piper

#73. Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Sophia Bush

#74. You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens

#75. We must be careful not to recite ugliness in our hearts because it will eventually find its way out.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#76. You can either delay or speed up the inevitable; but you cannot prevent it from staying the course.

Joan Ambu

#77. Commitment. Someone who'll go the distance. I need somebody with staying power who'll make me go weak in the knees. Commitment. And everything that goes with it. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playing for keeps ...

LeAnn Rimes

#78. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Maxine Kumin

#79. I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

Dawn Angelique

#80. Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this.

Pharrell Williams

#81. While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Anne Tyler

#82. It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.

John Scalzi

#83. A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

Himmilicious

#84. It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

Jay Asher

#85. Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

Ellen Goodman

#86. I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

Danica McKellar

#87. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

Kip Moore

#88. I've had countless conversations with or about people who are "sleeping in separate bedrooms", as if sleeping in the same bed is all there is to staying married, but however bad things get, sharing a bed has never been problematic; it's the rest of life that horrifies.

Nick Hornby

#89. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#90. For a man, staying single in teenages is equivallent of smoking to two and a half packets of cigarettes.

Srinivas Shenoy

#91. That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.

Amanda Tero

#92. As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Joanna Scott

#93. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#94. Becoming rational is really simple task,all that you want to do is staying in central of superstition and immature criticizes

Myself

#95. love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back

Andrew McMillan

#96. I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#97. My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

Meryl Streep

#98. Valentine lifted Rose to look her in the eye. You are staying away from men, my
sugar cake. Men are evil, wicked, and devious. I know this, because I am one.

Suzanne Enoch

#99. I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do ... and pay my bills.

Gina Rodriguez

#100. The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.

John Piper