Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

had to work every single day of his life.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Katie Couric

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

Kelly Clarkson

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

April Masini

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Phil McGraw

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Lisa Kleypas

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

Judy Carter

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

Louisa May Alcott

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

John Mellencamp

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Garry Shandling

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Edan Lepucki

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Ho Chi Minh

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Eric Schaeffer

There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland.

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Delta Burke

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.