(38 quotes found)
“Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.”
William Law
“I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.”
William Shakespeare
“The Singularity is Near,”
Ray Kurzweil
“There are truths that are singularly shy and ticklish and cannot be caught except suddenly -- that must be surprised or left alone.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.”
Wally Lamb
“Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”
Jean Genet
“DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.”
“Love is not singular except in syllable.”
Marvin Taylor
