Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege… — Charles Baudelaire
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of… — E. Lockhart
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure. — Chuck Klosterman
The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels. — Heather Armstrong
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… — Amartya Sen
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. — Paula Gunn Allen
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the… — Pope John Paul II
Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. — Nirmala Srivastava
That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular. — Nirmala Srivastava
Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. — Nirmala Srivastava
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty,… — Jacob K. Javits
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is… — Pedro Almodovar
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity… — Miguel Syjuco
Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
I think an important approach for designers to take is to have a very - not singular but focused point of view. — Stacey Bendet
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person… — Orhan Pamuk
I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. — Orhan Pamuk
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in… — Orhan Pamuk
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude… — James C. Maxwell

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