#single

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#create #disappear #duration #essence #fortunes

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic #alcoholic beverages #any #beverages #deny

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#any #baseball #book #books #changed

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#based #built #foundation #hundreds #many

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#christ #declare #does #expanse #human

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#companies #due #evidence #i #lost

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#am #audience #back #bandwidth #behind

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. ↗

— Saadi

#becomes #collected #consists #deal #drop

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#also #always #course #created #famous

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play? ↗

— Steve Sabol

#always #been #canvas #even #face