Top 38 Singly Quotes
#1. Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.
Isabel Scott Rorick
#2. The champion of justice [ ... ] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.
Plato
#3. The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.
Chanakya
#4. Misfortunes never come singly'. First,
Anne Frank
#5. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Lord Chesterfield
#7. At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#8. For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.
Swami Vivekananda
#10. The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it, singly and together, in seasons of reflection and despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.
E.B. White
#11. Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
Jean Racine
#12. In all of its varied and protean forms, love is the tether binding our whirling lives. Without that biological anchor, all of us are flung outward, singly into the encroaching dark. (225)
Thomas Lewis
#13. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
Frank Moore Colby
#14. The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
Henry James
#15. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.
Robert Browning
#16. Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#17. Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
John Fowles
#18. Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.
Kate Atkinson
#19. Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.
John Fowles
#20. Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
Cyprian
#21. The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
Charles Lamb
#22. So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Thomas Browne
#25. Had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. Take
Neil Gaiman
#26. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
#27. There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.
David Papineau
#28. There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson
#29. Just Tits over and over. During tests it sounded like a forest at night in the classroom. Voices rising singly or several at a time from the focused quiet. Tits. Tits. Titssss.
John Darnielle
#31. We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#32. The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us
each one singly and altogether
to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.
Pope John Paul II
#33. He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
Neil Gaiman
#34. All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
#35. I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
Jules Verne
#36. They say troubles never comes singly,
G.A. Henty
#37. Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
Arnold Bennett
#38. Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.
Kary Mullis
