Single Quotes

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

Solitude is the place of purification.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Pain is never permanent.

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.