Quotes About Singled

#1. This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most.

Karen Kingsbury

#2. When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?

Jodi Picoult

#3. Like when you misplace your scooter keys or your phone and then they turn up and you get a rush of luckiness, as if the stars or fate or something has singled you out for a win.

Margaret Atwood

#4. When someone initiates kindness anonymously, you know it comes from the most pure, kind-hearted part of them because they'll probably never be singled out and thanked. It speaks to his character.

Kim Holden

#5. So at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been wiped clean.

Krista Ritchie

#6. Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.

Mike Caro

#7. If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

Celeste Ng

#8. Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.

Mathew Staver

#9. Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

Martha Reeves

#10. Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

Abel Bonnard

#11. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.

Armand Deutsch

#12. The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

Damon Hill

#13. Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Henry Mintzberg

#14. An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable.

Salvador Dali

#15. Beware of ANY vision at all in which you personally have been singled out to play a lead role in the redoing of all human history. You haven't.

Chris Kilham

#16. Still, it's cool," said Ron, a little defensively. "And from what they said, Dumbledore invented it himself!"
"I know, but surely he wouldn't have singled you out in his will just to help us turn out the lights!

J.K. Rowling

#17. As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Kevin Bacon

#18. So he set into motion a revolution in education: creative students would be singled out and allowed to pursue their dreams at their own pace.

Anonymous

#19. The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

Michael Franti

#20. Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts - I did - still do, 'smatter of fact.

J.K. Rowling

#21. A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

Elayne Boosler

#22. SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#23. I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

George W. Bush

#24. When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

Donald Trump

#25. You'd think you'd been singled out of all the women in the world for this crowning indignity." "What if I do!" she cried angrily. "It isn't an indignity for them. It's their one excuse for living. It's the one thing they're good for. It is an indignity for me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

Billy Collins

#27. When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

Philip Gulley

#28. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

#29. I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

Yuvraj Singh

#30. You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#31. Then there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child, finding one, felt singled out and special all day long.

John Steinbeck

#32. I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

Bonnie Raitt

#33. Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Carlisle Floyd

#34. There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

Matt Reeves

#35. I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.

Charles Wright

#36. People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

Gloria Allred

#37. Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

Huda Sha'arawi

#38. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

Heather O'Neill

#39. She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.

Jamaica Kincaid

#40. I believe children are as close as we are allowed to come to feeling as though we have, for just a moment, been singled out by the gods. It is their way of touching us, even briefly...

Unknown

#41. When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.

Marisa De Los Santos

#42. I got singled out. I don't know why. Why do people always target me? Is it because I'm short and they figure I can't fight back? They're right, I can't, but it's not because I'm vertically challenged.

Julie Anne Peters

#43. History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#44. Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life - to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

Boyd K. Packer

#45. I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Francis Ford Coppola

#46. The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ... that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

Stuart L. Pimm

#47. Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

Margaret Atwood

#48. You are not alone. You are not being singled out by the fates to suffer.

Karen Salmansohn

#49. Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

William Hague

#50. I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Rolf Harris

#51. The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

Martin Luther

#52. Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.

E. Lockhart