Single Quotes - page 5

If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. (Luis Buñuel)
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. View quote
Victor Hugo
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task. View quote
Angela Merkel
My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. View quote
Lord Byron
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. View quote
Alfred Jodl
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. View quote
Albert Kesselring
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
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. View quote
Theodore Parker
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers. View quote
Franz Boas
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. View quote
Albert Einstein
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. View quote
Edward Abbey
A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant. (Posidonius)
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. View quote
Mindy Kaling
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. View quote
Nina Garcia
I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page. View quote
Augusten Burroughs