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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law.
— Leo Tolstoy
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.
— Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
— Henry David Thoreau
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
— Theodore Parker
The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
— David McCullough
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
— Shannon L. Alder
And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Man was exiled from the Garden for eating a single fruit, and now you propose to uproot the whole tree without the angels noticing.
— G. Willow Wilson
His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.
— George R R Martin
The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ...
— Meg Waite Clayton
It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.
— Daniel Quinn
The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.
— J.M. Stewart
the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
— George R R Martin
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
— David Lloyd George
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
— Frederick William Robertson
It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.
— Vladimir Makarov
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
— Seamus Dever
Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
— Robin Williams
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
— Howard Schwartz
Beware the man of a single book.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
— Victor Hugo
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
— Samuel Johnson
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.
— Martha Macharia
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be— E. E. Cummings
If certain females could hold on to a man the same way they hold on to grudges. They'd never be single!
— David A. Santos
No single act is entirely redemptive, but all a fallen man has is the first step back.
— Frederick Weisel
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
— Greta Garbo
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
— Michael Kimmel
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
— Juvenal
The last clear definite function of men - muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need - this is man.
— John Steinbeck
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
— Albrecht Durer
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
— Shana Alexander
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.
— L. Ron Hubbard
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
— Carl Van Vechten
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
— L. Neil Smith
As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
— Megan Whalen Turner
I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.
— Dan Dailey
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
— Hugh Hefner
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
— Michael Crichton
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
— Eugenio Montale
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
— Benjamin Franklin
Going to church will not get you the black man you seek and it never will. Page 98
— Deborrah Cooper
If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
— Jacob Bronowski
You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
— Courtney Milan
Beware the man of the single book
— Bertrand Russell
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
— Johannes Kepler
Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
— Orison Swett Marden
The young man had lost his mentor, his home, and his brother, all because of the actions of a single night.
— Jeff Grubb
Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
— Charles Barkley
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single wordMan — George Orwell
Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?
— Larry David
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
— Samuel Richardson
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
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
— Joshua Lederberg
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
— E.T.A. Hoffmann
The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art ... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
— Everette Lee DeGolyer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
IT IS A FACT, UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED, that a single man in possession of a fine ass must be observed like wildlife
— Qwen Salsbury
But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [ ... ] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.
— William Joyce
A woman without a man a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver
So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison.
— Albert Camus
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
— Charles Spurgeon
A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan