Single Quotes - page 89

We as a non-EU country now have to protect Europe from an EU country - that is, Greece. We already had to spend €25 million in tax money. We already declared a state of emergency. And what have we received from Europe? Nothing! Not a single cent. (Gjorge Ivanov)
It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch on the way down. View quote
Glen Cook
It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing.” "I don't understand.” "Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless. View quote
Glen Cook
If the allies had obliged me just one single time, I would have brought the German people behind me, yes; even today, I could still get them to support me. However, they (the allies) gave me nothing and the minor concessions they made, always came too late. Thus, nothing else remains for us but brutal force. The future lies in the hands of the new generation. Moreover, they, the German youth, who we could have won for peace and reconstruction, we have lost. Herein lies my tragedy and there, the allies' crime. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am. View quote
Debby Ryan
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. View quote
Deborah Moggach
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. View quote
David Duchovny
what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it. View quote
David Levithan
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world. View quote
David J. Lieberman
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. (David Nicholls)
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. View quote
Albert Ellis
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. View quote
J.R. Ward
And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door. View quote
Janet Fitch
Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings. View quote
Jay Parini
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. View quote
James Gunn
Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives. View quote
James Altucher
No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made. View quote
James Surowiecki
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. View quote
Jane Smiley
I was raised by a strong single mother. View quote
Jason Momoa
I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment. (Jen Lancaster)
Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times. View quote
Jeff Kinney