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I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that… — Elizabeth Hurley
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams II
We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in… — Alfred Adler
The single most enjoyable thing in the world......SEX! — Starhawk
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any… — Dorothy Parker
I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even… — Dorothy Parker
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at… — Ambrose Bierce
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. — Buddha
So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears. — Francis William Bourdillon
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it proves in happie Hour - The first sweete… — Elinor Glyn
The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself. — Unknown Author
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being… — Hannah Moore
But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these… — Bhagavad Gita
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world — William Cobbett
I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the… — Unknown Author
A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times — Joss Whedon
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. — Unknown Author
If a single person in a country is cold or hungry, the leader is at fault — Paul J. Meyer
In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new… — Keira Knightley

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