Single Life Quotes - Page 4

• We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

  Brendan Gill

  Faces, Facts, Lifetime

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• Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Lying, Safety

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211

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• Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

  Stephen Holden

  Heart, Piano, Expectations

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• And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Mom, Jesus

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• The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Substance, Universe

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• 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

  Vices, Unbroken, Lessons

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• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

  Samuel Butler

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• I always know where the scissors are.

  Dan O'Brien

  Scissors, Knows

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• Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Lifetime, Accomplished

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• All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Thinking, Safety

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.67

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• If I'm going to give up the single life, it better be good - because I'm having fun!

  Renee Zellweger

  Giving Up, Fun, Be Good

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• Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mean, Dating

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• I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

  Elayne Boosler

  Inspirational, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Careers, Career Success

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• I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

  Kelly Preston

  Love Is, Aspect

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• Books and marriage go ill together.

  Moliere

  Book, Reading, Together

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• When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Reflection, Hands

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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 Bella

  Motivation, Years, Age

  "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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• 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

  Ideas, Periods, Human Life

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

  Ray Davies

  Done, Ifs

  "When I'm 65", www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

  James F. Cooper

  Struggle, Men, Woods

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• I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

  Jon Fishman

  Attitude, Fighting, Thinking

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• 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 Wellhausen

  Sacrifice, Circles, Facts

  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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• If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

  Ai Weiwei

  Speech, Vain, Ifs

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