Top 100 The Single Quotes
#1. The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most - teacher.
Bill Walsh
#2. Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Reza Aslan
#3. We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world,
Jorma Ollila
#4. The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success.
Bob Glover
#6. The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.
Jenna Marbles
#7. I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could've worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.
Patrick Grant
#8. Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
John Frusciante
#9. We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art ... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.
Carl Jung
#10. It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.
Paul David Tripp
#11. I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.
Gisele Bundchen
#12. I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it's a lot easier to meet girls.
Vince Vaughn
#13. This highlights the single most important geopolitical fact in the world: the United States controls all of the oceans. No other power in history has been able to do this. And that control is not only the foundation of America's security but also the foundation of its
George Friedman
#14. Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.
Bret Anthony Johnston
#15. Part Five: The Single Hound
XVIII
THERE is another Loneliness
That many die without,
Not want or friend occasions it,
Or circumstances or lot.
But nature sometimes, sometimes thought, 5
And whoso it befall
Is richer than could be divulged
By mortal numeral.
Emily Dickinson
#16. The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
Jane McGonigal
#17. I clutch my chest as I try to keep breathing. "What? I don't understand. You ... you said we couldn't get married. You ... you broke my heart." "It was the biggest mistake of my life. I could see it then and I can see it even more now. Letting you go was the single stupidest thing I've ever done.
Cassia Leo
#18. The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Lucian Leape
#19. The single most important ingredient to success is Discipline.
Brad Lomenick
#20. In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.
Mary Parker Follett
#21. Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.
Abhishek Ratna
#22. For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
Andre Breton
#23. I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses to grow. Allowing companies to use these tools for capital reinvestment is a common-sense way to encourage job creation.
Pat Tiberi
#24. Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.
Steve Martin
#26. There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.
Liane Moriarty
#27. The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
Kelly Wearstler
#28. We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another.
Pam Houston
#29. My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.
Jennifer Garner
#30. To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
#31. But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Polly Toynbee
#32. I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
Jimmy Breslin
#33. You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.
Ed Robertson
#34. I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting - the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. I think with certain artists you want to hear their album ... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.
Rick Rubin
#36. If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
Angela Merkel
#37. In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
Elena Kagan
#38. I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.
Ann Veneman
#40. I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
Will Smith
#41. NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.
Henry A. Kissinger
#42. The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.
Anna Quindlen
#44. Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
T. Colin Campbell
#45. The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
John C. Maxwell
#46. The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent]
John Berger
#47. I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.
Drew Carey
#48. The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
Michael Gove
#49. Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
Dan Millman
#50. The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.
Phil Knight
#51. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.
Ramit Sethi
#52. When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.
Bernie Sanders
#53. Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
Ikkyu
#54. I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
Sydney Pollack
#55. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles R. Swindoll
#56. The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
Cindy Gallop
#57. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was
the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.
Chris Evert
#58. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#59. Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
Bea Arthur
#60. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.
Sharon Brous
#61. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.
Anita Silvey
#62. A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
Brian Selznick
#63. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb
#64. What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
Al Ries
#65. The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don't worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.
David Gerrold
#66. The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.
Max Levchin
#67. Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.
Frank Zappa
#68. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Friedrich Engels
#69. The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
Keith Devlin
#70. The single most instinctive evil is discrimination
Rahul Bose
#71. A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate ...
Paul Volcker
#72. You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
Nalini Singh
#73. The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ... What am I doing to shape the values of the society?
John Ashcroft
#74. If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I'd say it's the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.
Harvey MacKay
#75. The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
Malcolm Gladwell
#76. The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
Allen Newell
#77. I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.
Dean Karnazes
#78. All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran - or Grayson - Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was.
David Weber
#79. It still hurt her to see their poems before her, printed in the curving Yeged-dai script, using Yegedin forms and the images so beloved of the Yegedin: the single pebble, the grasshopper at twilight, the song of a heartbroken lark sitting in a bent tree.
Yoon Ha Lee
#80. The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
Blaise Cendrars
#81. Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
Jay Samit
#82. The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.
Lois Wyse
#83. Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.
Maria Rodale
#84. You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive.
Paul Auster
#85. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#86. Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States.
Calvin Trillin
#87. It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But
Raymond E. Feist
#88. God is the single worst idea human beings ever had.
Reg Saner
#89. The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson
#90. The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!
Ed Rendell
#91. The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.
Sean DeLauder
#92. The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
T. S. Eliot
#93. With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.
Jacoby Shaddix
#94. I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
Pat Conroy
#95. The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
Homer
#96. There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.
Toni Braxton
#97. The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
Ted Cruz
#98. One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.
Thomas Bernhard
#99. If you believe the journalists, he's the single wealthiest individual, period. As rich as some zaibatsu. But there's the catch, really: is he an individual? In the sense that you are, or I am? No.
William Gibson
#100. The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
Michael Mullen
