#single

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ↗

— George Sand

#cannot #fire #life #our #out

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#before #bit #could #end #everything

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ↗

— Robert Browning

#day #earth #else #feel #god

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#confined #decree #doctrine #left #lust

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#almost #difficult #hit #home #home run

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#balance #good #good qualities #many #qualities

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one. ↗

— Julian Clary

#i #know #single #triple