#single

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#best #bipartisan #found #goal #i

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#area #areas #basically #favor #focused

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#every #example #for example #high #high school

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#excited #get #getting #hit #obviously

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts. ↗

— Phil Collins

#beatles #charts #day #got #grew

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#deep #dominate #earth #kind #lives

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#any #been #belief #discovered #evidence

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country