Single Quotes

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

Black people use body lotion every single day.

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all vibrate in one single tune. They all vibrate in harmony!

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing makeup ... I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.