Single Quotes

• It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • World
  • Death
  • Single

• Training camp is a grind, and it truly is all about embracing that grind and coming out here and forgetting about the heat and working to get better every single day.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Single
  • Training
  • Grind

• The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

  

  Asne Seierstad
  • Important
  • Country
  • Family

• I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Single

• Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

  

  Saahil Prem
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Lies

• Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Single

• If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Health

• From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system through four basic methods:

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • May
  • History
  • Perspective

• The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor.

  

  J. Edward Day
  • May
  • Single

• I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their artist, or a Puffy move.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• I love that my fans are cool with me being lovey-dovey about my wife rather than pretending that I'm single and trying to act all sexy onstage.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Cool

• One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • She
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Single
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• We did a reunion when TV One first launched episodes of 'Living Single'. Every time any of the gang comes through Atlanta, though, we always visit.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Time
  • Single
  • Gang

• We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Moving
  • Road
  • Point

• I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Single
  • Pride

• I think that sharing information about our economies, the way that the central banks do in Basel and other forums, is quite useful. But it's sharing information. It's not coordinating policy. It's not coordinating a single monetary policy.

  

  Charles L. Evans
  • Single

• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Single
  • Perspective
  • Distance

• This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Understanding

• I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Single

• Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Internet
  • Authority

• I read 'The Hobbit' but not a single one of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Single
  • Comedy

• I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Fun

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