Singles Quotes
42 quotes
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
"They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam but that's bullshit. I'll tell you why it's totally wrong. Because if another country invaded the hood tonight it would be warfare through Harlem and Washington Heights. I wouldn't be fighting for Bush or white America's dream. I'd be fighting for my people's survival and self esteem."
"I pledge no allegiance / Fuck the president's speeches / I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches"
"This shit is run by fake Christians, fake politicians. Look at they mansions, then look at the conditions you live in"
"Got a good reason for taking the easy way out. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now. She was a day tripper, a one way ticket yeah. It took me so long to find out, and I found out."
"When the rain comes they run and hide their heads. They might as well be dead. If the rain comes, if the rain comes."
"Lady Madonna, children at your feet, Wonder how you manage to make ends meet. Who finds the money when you pay the rent? Did you think that money was heaven sent?"
"Without going out of my door I can know all things on earth Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of Heaven The farther one travels The less one knows."
"Hey Jude don't make it bad, Take a sad song and make it better, Remember, to let her into your heart, Then you can start to make it better."
"Christ! You know it ain't easy, You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, They're going to crucify me."
"Whatever happened to the life that we once knew Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so Free as a bird."
"All my little plans and schemes, Lost like some forgotten dreams. Seems that all I really was doing Was waiting for you."
"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
", but she's pretty much obsolete."
"If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ..."
"The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal."
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
"If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."
"[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin."
"Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves."
"The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again."
"There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.Maybe she just doesn't like children.Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them."
"I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world."
"Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules."
"My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power!"
"There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so badly that you will wish you wouldn't wake up. I say this. Always, always, always approach love with the heart of the angel you were born with."
"Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core."
"To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love."
"Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute."
"We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway."
"At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented."
"The ''good-enough marriage'' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents."
"Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies."
Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
"You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?"
"When one is in love one thinks only of one."
"Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead."
"don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust."
"You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning."
"I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them."
"I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand."
"When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes."