Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know… — Carl Safina
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole… — Ludwig von Mises
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land
The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it… — Nicole Krauss
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. — Charles Baudelaire
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must… — J C Ryle
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which… — Judith Butler
Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our… — Ken Robinson
In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off… — Jon Meacham
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of… — Cub Koda
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a… — Georges Bizet
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of… — Erwin Schrodinger
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. — Kurt Andersen
Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our… — Wally Lamb
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in… — Cyril Connolly
It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or… — Lawrence Anthony
The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. — Gail Godwin

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