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  • A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

    Moving   Men   Together  
  • If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

    Wise   Men   Enemy  
  • The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

    Character   Men   Average  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

    Events   World   Language  
  • I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

  • It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

    Powerful   Men   Earth  
  • What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

    Christopher Isherwood (2013). “A Single Man: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan
  • I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

    Single   Hurt   Hate  
  • No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

  • You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

  • The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

    Mean   Fate   Men  
    "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 8: "The Monsters", p. 120, 1970.
  • All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

    Men   Hands   Desire  
  • A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

    "Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.
  • Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

    Men   Evaluation   Facts  
    Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
  • If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

    Children   Men   Equality  
  • There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

    Powerful   Mean   Men  
    Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.41, Eliphas Levi
  • I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

    "Sir Elton John: 'I spent £30m in 20 months'", www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2000.
  • Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

    Men   Thinking   America  
    "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, (2000-).
  • The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

    Summer   Men   Hands  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.291
  • Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

    Time   Loneliness   Men  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)
  • If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505
  • I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

    "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.
  • I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

    Men   Space   Groups  
  • All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

    Jobs   Real   Hero  
    Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.
  • I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

  • Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

    Bullying   Attitude   Men  
  • A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

    Funny   Witty   Stupid  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

    Men   Animal   Half  
    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.294, Regnery Publishing
  • Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

    Men   Age   Six  
    Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House
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