S Quotes
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“Single people are already living in the comfort zone. The majority of them have become too spoiled.”
“Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.”
“single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in”
Source: The Unit
“Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.”
Source: Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
“Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Single truth lies - especially when there's no other lies to purify it.”
“single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others.”
“Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.”
“Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.”
“Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.”
“Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.”
“Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.”
“Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.”
“Singlehood-ness should be enjoyed and live to its fullest. But not to the detriment of Standards, Intuitiveness, Neighbourliness, Godliness, Learning and Effectiveness. In you Singlehood, live in God’s guiding light.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.”
“Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.”
“Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.”
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“Singleness of purpose is the force of passion.”
“Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!”
“Singles also have an endearing ability to get out of their own way: Imagine trying to extend "Pappa-Oom-Mow-Mow" for an entire album (and one thing you'll have imagined is a central dilemma of some of today's best recordmakers).”
Source: The Heart Of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
“Singles are always simple.”
“Singles are told to be content with where they are in life but also encouraged and pressured to move out of their current “situation” or “season.” Being told both of these can become a bit confusing.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.”
“Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.”
“Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.”
“Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.”
“Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.”
“Singling out a perceived threat to our end goal of peace does not serve that end”
Source: Armageddon
“Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.”
“Singular acts of compassion can have profound consequences across generations. You never know whom you might inspire or where the inspiration might lead.”
Source: Laughing at the Sky—Wild Adventure, Bold Dreams, and a Daring Search for a Stolen Childhood
“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.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“Singular Touch.
With that singular touch of his precious warm hand,
His finger slowly skimmed her porcelain cheek.
As her eyes fell upon his delicate soul,
It was then he knew,
He had captured every single ounce of her being.”
Source: Shiver
“Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.”
“Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.”
“Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."”
“Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.”
“Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.”
“Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed in your eyes? It's all an approach; it's all a glide path to the moment of genuine singularity; genuine artificial intelligence.”
“Singura cale să eviţi munca este să munceşti. Nu munca în sine este preţioasă; ci faptul că învingem munca prin muncă. Adevărata valoare a muncii sălăşluieşte în puterea renunţării la sine.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“Singura inițiere oficială pe care o primești aici pe Pământ este inițierea în întuneric. Oamenii sunt inițiați de către Sistem în a merge și a se afunda chiar de unii singuri în întuneric.”
Source: 2 ani în America, ... după 15 ani
“Singurele momente importante dintr-o viaţă sunt cele de care îţi aminteşti.”
Source: 7 ans après...
“Singurul mod de a nu fi criticat niciodată este să nu faci nimic, dar chiar şi atunci vei fi criticat că eşti leneş şi nu faci nimic.”
“Singurul succes care merită să fie râvnit e să trăieşti din plin şi ceea
ce nu poţi obţine. Dacă nu, unica şansă e să fii idiot.”
Source: Aventuri solitare: două jurnale și un contrajurnal