Singularly Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre… — George A. Sheehan
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow… — Noel Coward
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails. — Owen Jones
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive… — Alfred North Whitehead
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using… — Yehuda Berg
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or… — August Wilson
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of… — Basil Bunting
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but… — Frederick Douglass
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a… — Charles Spurgeon
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input. — Eric Jensen
Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in… — William McKinley
My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's… — Gore Verbinski
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… — George Will

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