It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.
Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.
Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.
L. A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
. . . love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.