Single Quotes - page 16

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. (Paul Klee)
There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy. View quote
Hesiod
There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. View quote
Adolf Loos
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me. View quote
Anne Brontë
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. View quote
Roger Scruton
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children! View quote
Denis Diderot
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one. View quote
Stephen Spender
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. View quote
Derren Brown
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. (Christopher Alexander)
Observers in earlier epochs might have found it equally preposterous to suppose that the world economy would one day be doubling several times within a single lifespan. Yet that is the extraordinary condition we now take to be ordinary. View quote
Nick Bostrom
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. View quote
Nicole Krauss
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle - And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,... View quote
Vitruvius
My Fox guys, I love every single one of them. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. View quote
Milton Friedman
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability. (Nadine Gordimer)
I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. View quote
Christopher Hitchens