Lone Quotes
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The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
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More Lone Quotes
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
william hazlitt— 1822 Table Talk, vol.2,'On Going a Journey'.
From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas – Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! Fair these broad meads, these hoary woods are grand; But we are exiles from our fathers' land.
— "Canadian Boat Song", an anonymous poem first published in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, September 1829, and ostensibly translated from the Gaelic. There has been much debate as to the poem's authorship. [1]
At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
— Matthew Stover in the Revenge of the Sith novelization
Lovelyare the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
George Meredith— 1851Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poem was revised and republished in1878.
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years too late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
harpo marx— book, Harpo Speaks
Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1989, following weeks of huge protests in Beijing and a crackdown that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, a lone man stepped in front of a column of tanks rumbling past Tiananmen Square.:; The moment instantly became a symbol of the protests as well as a symbol against oppression worldwide an anonymous act of defiance seared into our collective consciousnesses.
— Patrick Witty, "Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen," in The New York Times LENS Blog (2009) Witty, Patrick. Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen. The New York Times LENS Blog. Retrieved on 2014-03-01.
But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.
frank pittman— Ch. 8 (Man Enough (1993))
lone, lone, and lone I stand, With none to hear my cry, As the black feet of the night Go walking down the sky.
Dame MaryJean ne e Mary Jean Cameron Gilmore— 1932 Under the Wilgas,'The Myall in Prison'.
What are the wild waves saying,Sister, the whole day long,That ever amid our playingI hear but their low, lone song?
joseph edwards carpenter— What are the wild Waves saying?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Come out — pretty Rose-Bud, — my lone, timid one!Come forth from thy green leaves, and peep at the sun!For little he does, in these dull autumn hours,At height'ning of beauty, or laughing with flowers.
hannah flagg gould— "The Rose-Bud of Autumn" in The Youth's Coronal (published 1850).
Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there! Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine.
Matthew Arnold— St. 18. (Thyrsis (1866))
Feingold won big after voting against the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts, and having cast the lone vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act
russ feingold— Chicago Tribune
“Stand up, stand up now, Tomlinson, and answer loud and high “The good that ye did for the sake of men or ever ye came to die “The good that ye did for the sake of men in little earth so lone!” And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone.
rudyard kipling— Tomlinson, l. 7-10 (1891).
Fourteen small broidered berries on the hern Of Circe's mantle,each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypso's tears that rolled Into the sea,for pearls to come to them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold Fourteen small drops,which Fautus,growing old, Craved of the Fiend,to water Life's stem
eugene lee-hamilton— From What the Sonnet Is.
In the name of national security, the Commission ’s hearings were held in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of the case. This prompts my second question: If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security? Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed in France during the Dreyfus case: If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy?
bertrand russell— "16 Questions on the Assassination" in The Minority of One, ed. M.S. Arnoni (1964-09-06), pp. 6-8.
I was grounded while you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth you cut through lies I saw the lone empty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon
mike scott— "The Whole Of The Moon"
Swiftly walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— To Night, st. 1 (1821).
Remote remote Cold Mountain road Cold cold ice cold cliff Chirp chirp often many birds lone lone no sign people Swish swish wind blow face Gentle gentle snow settle head Day day no see sun Year year no see spring
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, line 57.
Rose of the Desert! thus should woman be Shining uncourted, lone and safe, like thee.
— Thomas Moore, Rose of the Desert.
What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?
— Joseph E. Carpenter, What are the Wild Waves Saying?
Nathless the sacred shrine is holy yet, With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod. Take off your shoes as by the burning bush, Before the mystery of death and God.
Emma Lazarus— Emma Lazarus, In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport [1]
What whispers so strange at the hour of midnight, From the aspen leaves trembling so wildly? Why in the lone wood sings it sad, when the bright Full moon beams upon it so mildly?
— B. S. Ingemann, The Aspen.
But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends Of free thoughts in his travels for variety, He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 83
Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er The lofty palace then his own no more.
james beattie— James Beattie, Vergil, Pastoral 6; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 427.
Come near me! I do weave A chain I cannot break I am possest With thoughts too swift and strong for one lone human breast.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam, Canto IX, Stanza 33; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
A poor lone woman.
— Mistress Quickly, scene i
