Single Quotes

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.