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The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — © Jean Baudrillard
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
I think an important approach for designers to take is to have a very - not singular but focused point of view.
I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.
All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
Aretha Franklin holds a significant place in the collective heart of America. She's a singular example of what we represent at our best.
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.
Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger. — © bell hooks
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.
My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
There is a sense of tranquility that I think people can get from being in an organized group, where a singular leader handles the responsibilities of individual thinking.
The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions.
I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely unfair.
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — © Amartya Sen
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. — © Cyril Connolly
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
Ludacris albums are all over the map in terms of overall quality, but as a rapper, he tops out as a hilarious, charismatic guy with a singular voice.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
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