J. C. Chandor Quotes

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

There's no such thing as society.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.