In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. – Peter Fenn
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. – Nigel Farage
As a child, I wanted only two things – to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. – Julie Burchill
Surely being a Professional Beauty – let alone an ageing one – is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. – Julie Burchill
I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important. – Shay Mitchell
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone – when the time was right for me. – Christy Turlington
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own. – Aung San Suu Kyi
No one should be left to suffer alone. – Daisaku Ikeda
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. – Jeffery Deaver
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. – William O. Douglas
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. – Marc Newson
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
Virtue alone has majesty in death. – Edward Young
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. – A. N. Wilson
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. – Franz Liszt
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. – Meir Kahane
No one chooses to raise children alone. – Erykah Badu
