Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper… — Alain de Botton
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something… — Caroline Knapp
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleâ€”and singularâ€”piece… — Joseph Epstein
Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with… — Rumi
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not… — Jacob Bronowski
It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life.… — Helen Keller
The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing… — Mary McCarthy
We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are… — William Melmoth
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To… — Ram Dass
Thereâ€™s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. — John Michael Greer
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, — Elizabeth Gilbert
The word priority was singular for 500 yearsâ€”what does priorities meanâ€”'many many first things.' — Greg McKeown
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is… — Peter Mayle
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort. — Richard Rolle
Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular… — Christmas Evans
[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'Â€Â™s Mike… — George Will
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated… — Isaac Newton
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to… — Wendell Berry
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing… — Rupert Holmes

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