Top 100 A Single Quotes
#1. On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.
Angela Carter
#3. 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.
Jean Giraudoux
#4. We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even - if we're honest - to ourselves.
Kate Bornstein
#5. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle.
#6. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.
Kristen Ashley
#7. We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
Terence McKenna
#8. We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?
John Steinbeck
#9. Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.
Neal Shusterman
#10. The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
George Packer
#11. Traditional ways to deal with information
reading, listening, writing, talking
are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#12. Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it.
Adam Santo
#13. I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.
Laura Hillenbrand
#14. Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
Klaus Schwab
#15. A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
Emily Bronte
#17. One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#18. I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
Ernst Haas
#19. They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
Paul Watson
#20. We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
Tom Baker
#21. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#22. He explains, the times where there is only a single set of footprints were not when He walked beside them, but instead, when He carried them.
Tillie Cole
#23. If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Quentin Crisp
#24. 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.
Thomas Paine
#25. 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".
Charles Stross
#26. Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn't make him do anything he didn't want. He wasn't going to do any work for me. He wasn't going to listen to a single thing I said.
Torey L. Hayden
#27. We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
Nan Hayworth
#28. By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman
#29. There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?
Cynthia Kenyon
#30. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,
Meg Cabot
#31. A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.
Warren Buffett
#32. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
Jodi Picoult
#33. The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
David Suzuki
#35. One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?
Morgan Freeman
#36. One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
Plotinus
#37. Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man ... requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.
Simon Newcomb
#38. Oh my God you are despicable!" Etta snarled.
"Careful, madam, blasphemy is still a sin-"
Even if Nicholas had been the gambling sort, he never would have wagered a single coin on her next words being "Then I guess I'll see you in hell!
Alexandra Bracken
#39. It is also of grave importance that society realize that children who are brought up in a single parent household can and do grow up loved, happy and successful.
Anonymous
#40. Philosophers say that people are all guided by a single standard. When they assent to a thing, it is because they feel it must be true, when they dissent, it is because they feel something isn't true, and when they suspend judgement, it is because they feel that the thing is unclear.
Epictetus
#41. The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#42. Success would be
a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with
a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,
success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning
Chris Murray
#43. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.
Zoe Heller
#44. The first time I bring a girl home, and not only is she the daughter of a famous poker player, but she could easily bankrupt us all in a single hand. For being the family fuckup, I felt like I had finally gained a little respect from my older brothers. And it was all because of Abby.
Jamie McGuire
#45. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Anonymous
#46. By some magic reversal, everything spectacularly useless filled the drawer intended for practical tools. What could you do with a single piece of jigsaw? But, on the other hand, did you dare throw it away?
Ian McEwan
#48. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.
Beatriz Williams
#49. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
Giulio Douhet
#50. For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.
Charles Roven
#51. On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.
Bill Bryson
#52. He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one.
Rainbow Rowell
#53. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.
James Fallows
#55. A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time.
Nalini Singh
#56. The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment.
Boethius
#57. I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
Bailey Chase
#58. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.
Aldous Huxley
#59. Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith
#60. A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Ernest Bramah
#61. ...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn.
(Where the fire started)
Jim Murphy
#62. What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
Buddy Wakefield
#63. It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
Immanuel Kant
#64. How is it that some people go through hell trying to get close to you, while you haven't the haziest notion and don't even give them a thought when two weeks go by and you haven't so much as exchanged a single word between you? Did he have any idea? Should I let him know?
Andre Aciman
#65. A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.
Metrodorus Of Chios
#66. The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
Rajneesh
#67. The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
Adolf Hitler
#68. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Tecumseh
#69. To count a few gulls makes the journey happy.
In the reedy bend, under the willow bank,
My wife and children smile with me.
The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet;
No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.
Wu Cheng'en
#70. Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.
Gabrielle Zevin
#71. I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.
Jeffrey Hunter
#72. John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
Tom Brokaw
#73. For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.
Steve Aoki
#74. No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world ... full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#75. would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. The
Sylvia Plath
#76. Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness ... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile ... Not a single one but has at some time wept.
H.G.Wells
#77. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.
Graham Joyce
#78. If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!'
Delta Burke
#79. Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#81. I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you.
Abi Ketner
#82. [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.
Thomas Demand
#83. I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.
Lyle Lovett
#84. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.
Margaret Sanger
#85. The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
Mason Cooley
#86. By the 1920s, sugar refineries were producing as much sugar in a single day - millions of pounds - as would have taken refineries in the 1820s an entire decade. With
Gary Taubes
#87. 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.
Desi Arnaz
#88. I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.
Raul Labrador
#89. In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
#90. Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#91. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen Goodman
#92. Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.
Dwight L. Moody
#93. He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.
Gail Carriger
#94. The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
Jacques Maritain
#95. I don't eat a single bite of food that I don't absolutely love.
Mark Sisson
#96. Thus, as historian Soledad Loaeza has argued, the authoritarianism that distinguished Mexico during the second half of the 1960s should not be reduced to a series of "paranoid" acts of a single president (as Enrique Krauze and others have insisted).
Jaime Pensado
#97. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. Key requirements for SAM systems to be used in eastern Ukraine include autonomy and stealth. The former means the ability to attack targets with a single operational combat vehicle; the latter means attacking targets without revealing the SAM system's location through the use of radar. These
Colby Howard
#99. Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
Phyllis Theroux
#100. The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Og Mandino
