Quotes of: Single-time Keyword

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

Vanessa Kerry

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

Will Smith

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Warren Zevon

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

Giorgio Napolitano

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

Minnie Driver

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

Mariella Frostrup

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesima...

Chance and Necessity

Sorry doesn’t mean anything! Not when you’re still with him. It’s not just that you cheated—it’s that he’s still here, and you’re still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I see you with him. I hate it that ...

Alpha

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress...

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill reality as I´ve known it? It is irreparable, if I do, fro...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is...

Single Dad Laughing

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed sc...

The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet

Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you laugh, you won’t look dign...

Stupeur et tremblements

What does it do?" said Loeser. "You feel as if you're being sucked down this fathomless, gloomy tunnel. Or to put it another way, it's as if all the different weights and cares of the world have been lifted from your shoulders to he replaced by a sin...

The Teleportation Accident

I have before now experienced that the best way to get a vivid impression and feeling of a landscape is to sit down before it and read, or become otherwise absorbed in thought; for then, when our eyes happen to be attracted to the landscape, you seem...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that’s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those ...

Charlotte Eriksson

This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without th...

JOHN SCHAFF

Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would s...

Jonathan Carroll