We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get married and have kids.
Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.
It is your sole responsibility to protect every single one of your days on earth with positive thoughts and beliefs.
Trustworthy friends are very hard to come by, and when they do, be sure to keep them without a single hesitation.
Greatness is in every single one of us, but the problem is that most people fail to show theirs to the world.
