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single nuts definitions
Charlie Munger What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
single-mom believe simple
Byron Katie I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.
single loneliness boys
Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
single shopping numbers
Deepak Chopra There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.
single blessing independence
Edward Gibbon The first of earthly blessings, independence.
single wisdom loneliness
Edward Gibbon Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
single-life down-and done
Ed Sheeran I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
single-life speech vain
Ai Weiwei If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
silence argument weak
Charles Caleb Colton Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
silence defense opponents
Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
Charles Dickens We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
Alan Watts To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
silence answers critics
Aiden Wilson Tozer Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.
silence building crescendo
Chogyam Trungpa As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence tragedy might
Chogyam Trungpa If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence lasts bed
Edith Wharton He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
silence may speech
Edith Wharton Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.