Singular Quotes

258 quotes by 218 authors

A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there… — Bruce Catton
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is… — Coleman Barks
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… — Hippocrates
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I… — Connie Nielsen
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in… — Robert J. Sawyer
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation. — Frederick Lenz
You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. — Frederick Lenz
If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The… — Frederick Lenz
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I… — David Gergen
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in… — Yasuhiko Kimura
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You… — Carla Gugino
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and… — Seth Grahame-Smith
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.… — Charles Jencks

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