A Quotes
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“A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.”
“A single soul is richer than all the worlds.”
“A single spark of kindness can reflect a greater light, brightening a life beyond measure.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.”
“A single spear-phishing email carrying a slightly altered malware can bypass multi-million dollar enterprise security solutions if an adversary deceives a cyber-hygienically apathetic employee into opening the attachment or clicking a malicious link and thereby compromising the entire network.”
“A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.”
“A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.”
“A single step remembered is better than a thousand steps forgotten.”
“A single stone thrown into the water sends dozens of ripples in every direction. And whether that be in the middle of an ocean or the confines of a single puddle, those ripples cover an area hundreds of times larger than the point at which the stone landed. Therefore, it’s not where we land. Rather, it’s the impact of our landing.”
“A single strike parts a champion from a corpse.”
– Praesi proverb”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“A single suit contains the lives of the person who makes it and the person who wears it.”
Source: The Tailor Shop at the Intersection
“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
“A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“A single tear forms, just in the corner of one eye, but it doesn't roll down my cheek; it merely crystallizes in the cold air, it grows and grows into a second giant globe that doesn't want to orbit with the world—it breaks off from the planet and plunges into infinity.”
Source: Malina
“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.”
Source: The Light of Other Days
“A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.”
“A single thought can shift your entire world.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“A single thought can weigh more than a thousand words.
And you carry it in nothing but a glance.”
“A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.”
“A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.”
Source: Stays Crunchy in Milk
“A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.”
Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes
“A single thought of her reminds me what it's like to feel alive and once again to have deep meaning in my life; A simple vision of her smile makes me feel special.”
“A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.”
“A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.”
“A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven...”
Source: Paper Gods and Iron Men
“A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“A single tree can create a forest without ever moving from the place where it was planted.”
“A single tree can make a forest if you are a carrier of GOD'S presence”
“A single tree doesn't make a forest.”
Source: The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth
“A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!”
“A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.”
“A single triggering phenomenon can generate an avalanche of disproportionate - and seemingly disparate - impacts when the simultaneous ripple effects collide.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“A single tune danced through his mind and all his attention rested upon it. It was a tune that seethed through the magical flood, shaped it, formed it, lived through it hugely, lived through it minutely, was its very essence. It bounced and trilled along, at first a little tripping tune, then it slowed, then it danced again but with more difficulty, seemed to founder in eddies of doubt and confusion, and then suddenly revealed that the eddies were just the first ripples of a huge new wave of energy surging up joyfully from underneath.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”
“A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.”
“A single voice cannot make a choir. A single tree cannot make a forest.”
Source: Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
“A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ahead, but all ticking monotonously on in their witless fashion, the multitude of them may be likely to deprive them of importance, as a gem loses its value when there are too many just like it which are too easily or cheaply obtainable.”
Source: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
“A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.”
Source: The Tsar of Love and Techno
“A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words.”
“A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you date and marry. Don't just date a man who you can put up with, marry a man you can trust, you'll follow his leadership, you'll respect him, he's saved, he's godly. The last thing you want is some guy you don't trust, he's not wise, he doesn't do his homework, he's harsh, he's inconsiderate, he's immature, he's a boy, you're more his mother than you are his mate, Real danger...real danger...”
“A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”
Source: The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon
“A single "woof"
---Mike was waiting
watching.
He jumped the busted fence
when he saw me coming
rushed over
so he could greet me properly.
I dropped to one knee
soaked up Mike's welcome
and everything about my bad day
ran off me
like rainwater rushing
along the edge of the road
to the drain.
Having someone who loves you enough
to wait
in the dreary weather
someone who's happy to see you
no matter what mood
you're in...
there's nothing better than that.”
Source: Missing Mike
“A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silence, a single word
acquires a great energy for work.
War is cut short by a word,
and a word heals the wounds,
and there’s a word that changes
poison into butter
and honey.
Let a word mature inside yourself.
Withhold the unripened thought.
Come and understand the kind of word
that reduces money and riches to dust.
Know when to speak a word
and when not to speak at all.
A single word turns the universe of hell
into eight paradises.
Follow the Way. Don’t be fooled
by what you already know. Be watchful.
Reflect before you speak.
A foolish mouth can brand your soul.
Yunus, say one last thing
about the power of words –
Only the word “I”
divides me from God.”
“A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.”
“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.”
Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume
“A single word is seldom rude enough to make a point.”
“A single word often betrays a great design.”
“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem.
How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”
“A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.”