Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support,… — Elizabeth Blackwell
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. — Allan Bloom
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. — David Brainerd
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of… — Nick Cave
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the… — Mary Oliver
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic… — Aberjhani
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest… — Tim Ferriss
I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural. — Mike Krzyzewski
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is… — Lord Byron
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular… — Jacques Monod
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable. — Tim Ferriss
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still… — Alexander Hamilton

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