quotes about Single Life
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
-- Ahmed Ben BellaSource : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
-- Anthony StorrSource : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.
-- Barbara Holland -
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One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
-- Deborah KerrSource : "- That Was One Classy Dame" by Alex, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2007.
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Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
-- Ed SheeranSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
-- Garrett Fort -
Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
-- Garry Shandling -
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The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
-- Hugh Hefner -
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
-- James Gunn -
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.
-- Jeremy Piven -
The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.
-- Jessica Savitch -
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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.
-- John Ford -
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
-- John Walker LindhSource : Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.
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The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
-- Julie Christie -
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
-- Julius WellhausenSource : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press
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I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
-- Kelly Preston -
My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.
-- Kurt Warner -
The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
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The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
-- Michael Jackson -
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
-- Ray DaviesSource : "When I'm 65", www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.
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There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.
-- Stephanie Klein -
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
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You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!
-- Dan O'Brien -
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.
-- J. M. E. McTaggart -
I am by nature not a list-keeper, but I do keep lists of names and add at least one or two every single day without exception. First names, last names, middle names, combinations of. I've collected more over the years than I can possibly ever use in a single lifetime, but I keep the list going nonetheless. I tell my students that it's a habit, an act of attention, that will keep them engaged, keep them thinking about characters and stories, and how that match might get made.
-- Jack DriscollSource : Source: therumpus.net
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