Quotes with single

  • There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
  • By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
  • 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.
  • Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.
  • It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
  • They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
  • Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
  • Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
+7

Quotes 1 till 20 of 324.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
    - +
    +73
  • Hosea Ballou A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
    - +
    +6
  • Epictetus A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
    - +
    +2
  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
    +2
  • Anna Held A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
    - +
    +1
  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
    - +
    +1
  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
    - +
    +1
  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
    - +
    +1
  • Carlos Ghosn Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
    - +
    +1
  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
    +1
  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
    - +
    +1
  • Buddha If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
    - +
    +1
  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
    - +
    +1
  • Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
    - +
    +1
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
    - +
    +1
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge No one does anything from a single motive.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
    - +
    +1
  • Winston Churchill To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
    +1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All single famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com