Single Quotes - page 4

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. View quote
Georg Brandes
Remember, the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread. View quote
Jack Dorsey
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
No single... If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. (Bernie Sanders)
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end the fundamentalists, the beginning when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. View quote
William Faulkner
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. View quote
Virginia Woolf
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. View quote
Clarence Darrow
A sentence always means more. Even a single word, within the weave of incommensurable connotation, can, and usually does. View quote
George Steiner
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. View quote
Erma Bombeck
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. View quote
Confucius
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. (Vitruvius)
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have. View quote
Jared Leto
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. View quote
Brennan Manning
Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. View quote
George Colman the Younger