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Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. — Elizabeth Janeway

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course. — Bruce Crown

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces. — Kay Whitley

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular) — Dorothy L. Sayers

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures. — Alastair Reynolds

Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts? — Neal Shusterman

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

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved — Hanya Yanagihara

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. — Michael Cunningham

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself. — Penelope Cruz

We enjoy not only the privilege of existence, but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. — Bill Bryson

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. — H.P. Lovecraft

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. — Abraham Lincoln

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job. — Amity Shlaes

He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love. — Eleanor Brown

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

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

That being singular is the exact thing that makes something
or someone
amazing. — Stephanie Perkins

Her eyes finally find and lock onto mine. All I see is my future, my salvation, my singular chance at redemption. — K. Bromberg

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

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't. — Chelsea Clinton

It is said to be the age of the first person singular — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. — Paula Gunn Allen

I think an important approach for designers to take is to have a very - not singular but focused point of view. — Stacey Bendet

This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Freedom shouldn't move like an arrow, in a singular direction. It should flow like an ocean, swallowing the whole horizon. — Romina Russell

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

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite. — Gail Godwin

When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird. — John Sandford

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared. — Barack Obama

We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity. — Thomas Ligotti

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted. — John Calvin

If I get killed, put my boots back on me. — John Sandford

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids. — Erma Bombeck

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — Thomas Hobbes

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life. — Richard Selzer

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. — Nirmala Srivastava

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural. — Erwin Schrodinger

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine. — Gina Barreca

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

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

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. — John Michael Greer

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth. — John Sandford

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

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty.
Leto II — Frank Herbert

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct. — Michel De Montaigne

I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had. — George Takei

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do — Shaquille O'Neal

The primary reason to leave was her art; the singular reason to stay was a man. — Gina Conkle

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

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

Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending. — M. Night Shyamalan

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment. — Katherine A. Briccetti

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. — Nick Cave

The work so performed is both remarkable and singular. It is a great work of love. — Gordon B. Hinckley

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

If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power. — Carly Simon

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell

Ones Rebirth and Resurrection are singular acts of God".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential — Penny Kittle

1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. — William Strunk Jr.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really. — Vladimir Nabokov

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave. — Charles Robert Maturin

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. — Lord Chesterfield

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. — Nirmala Srivastava

How 'We' Assume the Throne [10w]
We've become royalty
when the first-person-singular leaps
into the first-person-plural. — Beryl Dov

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. — M. Night Shyamalan

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. — David Brainerd

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ... — Laurence Sterne

The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life. — Tad R. Callister

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. — Clive Sinclair

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. — John Sandford

Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire. — Joyce Rachelle

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember. — Charlotte Lamb

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. — Rupert Holmes

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved. — Hanya Yanagihara

There's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. — Charles Bukowski

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves
there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. — Joan Didion

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard

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

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. — J.D. Salinger

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels. — Heather Armstrong

You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. — Stephen Singular

How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics. — Alexandre Dumas

How could I have forgotten such a miracle, such a gift, for even a singular moment? — Heather Lyons

There is no creature more singular or dangerous than the educated woman. — Rachael Eyre

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

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton