Single Quotes
We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.
I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.
Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.
On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.
I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.
If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point.
Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
I think, if I've learned anything over the years, it is that every single season is a unique one.
Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?
Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.