Single Quotes
6885 quotes by 4169 authors
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure…
— Barry S. Strauss
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Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far…
— David Halberstam
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
— Samuel Johnson
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I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of…
— Daniela Hantuchova
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Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society…
— Naomi Klein
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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or…
— Mel Torme
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve,…
— Aprilynne Pike
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I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to…
— Johan Cruijff
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She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When…
— Jack Lemmon
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My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
— Brian Tracy
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In the end, no single group will mean defeat for the Democrat and victory for the Republican in 2016. But President Obama's troubling legacy -…
— Byron York
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Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track…
— Byron York
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Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum…
— David Ogilvy
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
— Sadaharu Oh
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Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional…
— Bob Dylan
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And…
— Nicole Krauss
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The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
— Tony Robbins
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