Single Quotes
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.
I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.
Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.
the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.
The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.
Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.
I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.
If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.
College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.
Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.