Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louisa May Alcott

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

John Ford

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

Lisa Kleypas

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

John Mayer

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Judy Carter

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

Loren Eiseley

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

Kelly Clarkson

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Oscar Wilde

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Madonna Ciccone

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Mac Miller

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Marshall McLuhan

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Edan Lepucki

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Simone Weil

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

Thomas Merton

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Ray Davies

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.