Single Quotes
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day.
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.
Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.
Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.
Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.
Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.
A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.