Top 523 Singular Quotes & Sayings

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

Up until Beijing where I had my greatest victory, I had trained for 16 years of life with a singular goal and singular obsession that I wanted to win gold medal at the Olympics.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

Saw #? Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.

The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

I think god is singular and exists everywhere and for everyone.

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

As much as early 2000s aesthetics are something I was pining for and very much love, I would occasionally struggle to find one singular image or one singular site that summed up all of my memories really well.

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.

I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.