Single Quotes

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

~ Herbert Hoover

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

~ Dolly Parton

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

~ Elena Kagan

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

~ Mike Pence

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

~ Edith Stein

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

~ Cesare Lombroso

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

~ Emma Roberts

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

~ William Shakespeare

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

~ Sydney Pollack

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

~ Tom Peters

Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

~ Baba Kalyani

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.

~ Jason Wu

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

~ Donald Norman

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

~ Stephanie Mills

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

~ Leona Lewis

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

~ Busy Philipps

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

~ Mystikal

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~ Plautus

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

~ Vint Cerf

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

~ Connie Stevens

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

~ Melissa Etheridge

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

~ Estelle

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

~ Chrissie Hynde

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

~ Barry Goldwater

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

~ Lysander Spooner

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

~ Christina Aguilera

I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.

~ Winona Ryder

I'm single, and I hate dating.

~ Keshia Knight Pulliam

I'm enjoying dating. I'm single, though, I'm not in a relationship.

~ Matt Czuchry

If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship,' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.

~ Bryson Tiller

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

~ Elton John

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

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

~ Ken Jennings

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

~ Marvin Minsky

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

~ Jorge Luis Borges