A Quotes
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“A sinful lie is not in portraying the false but in hiding the truth”
“A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.”
“A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.”
“A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.”
“A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.”
“A singer must be able to sing any kind of song”
“A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.”
“A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers.
Kestrel looked away from Arin.
She swore to herself that she would never look back”
Source: The Winner's Curse
“A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.”
“A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.”
“A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”
Source: Testimony
“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.”
“A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.”
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
“A single bedtime story can shape a thousand dreams and awaken a lifetime of empathy”
Source: Brave Like Me: A Children's Book About Courage and Facing Fears for Toddlers and Kids Ages 3-6
“A single bindu holds the vastness of the whole creation, where every star, every galaxy, and every heartbeat exist. It is the reflection of one eternal truth.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“A single black ant sped across the floor beyond our naked toes, and I wondered why I felt so oppositional. His expression of unflappable faith had touched a profound place, the deep wellspring of my purpose—my future dream I cradled like a soft and formative pearl.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“A Single Blank Paper Is More influential then Thousand Love Letters Of Fake Feelings.”
“A single blow from the fist of life is enough to turn the simp into a great philosopher.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.”
“A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.”
“A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”
“A single burst of light,
The regular beating of the heart.
A rare womb,
A dense life.
A cord as pure as white light,
A pair of scissors made of prism.
Oh, baby, life is yours.”
Source: a Song a Poem
“A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.”
“A single candle has the power to light up a room, a single star has the power to light up the sky, and a single soul has the power to light up the world.”
“A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.”
“A single cheat day leads to more cheat days.”
Source: sciVive
“A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.”
Source: The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
“A single conversation can change things.”
“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”
Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness
“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”
Source: Reflections
“A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all.”
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“A single day is not enough, to honor all that’s you;
You gave me a lifetime, a gift to which none can compare.
A million stars, with all their might, could never shine so true;
As your pure heart, and lovely smile, when speaking words of care.
Nurturing hands, you brought up life, maternal sacrifice,
When days of darkness set, you help to see the dawn gleam.
You’re the strength I lean on, when my own does not suffice,
Wisdom laden grace, you’ve shown the light for much to be seen.
So I’ll take this day, to speak loud from heart, of all that’s true;
I love you, mom. Is all I’ll say, for nothing more will ever do.”
“A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.”
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
“A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.”
“A single decision can collide and cascade until an uncontrollable avalanche sweeps over the world in profound ways. A convergence.”
Source: The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened
“A single decision is easy to dismiss.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“A single disadvantage could spoil our many advantages.”
“A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.”
“A single dream can change your entire perspective on the world.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”