Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

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 first-person… — Wanderlei Silva
Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness… — Dannion Brinkley
Wrestling has positively impacted my life in many ways, but perhaps the one singular thing that I gained from wrestling that stands out the most… — Leroy Kemp
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its… — Peter Garrett
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won… — Bernard Lown
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their… — Alexander Hamilton
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the… — Peter Selgin
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a… — Charles Baudelaire
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk… — Gerald Haslam
Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession. — Edie McClurg
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain… — John von Neumann
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What… — David Brock
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to… — Don DeLillo
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. — Kay Ryan

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218 authors contributed a total of 258 Singular Quotes, led by these top contributors: