Quotes About Singularly

I'm remembering there's a word in Russian, izgoy, that describes someone with a flaw that makes that person singularly unfit to perform his or her professional role. A blocked writer, I lascivious priest, a drunken chauffeur. As a screwed-up therapist,someone like me should not be working at all. Not yet. It is far too soon. And you can tell that. Bethany, with her Competence Scale, already has. But here I am. An izgoy.

He had not the knack of surrounding himself with nice people--indeed, for a man of ability and virtue his choice had been singularly unfortunate; he had no guiding principle beyond a certain preference for mediocrity;

Looking at depression among the poor, we can see that taboos and prejudices are blocking us from helping a population that is singularly receptive to that help.

Keith was surprised that his own mount seemed singularly unimpressed by the hellbeast.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.

I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.

Next day he proved the point that he was always singularly useless unless some daredevil escapade was called for.

When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

Shrewd as the British capitalist proverbially is, his judgment in regard to American investments has been singularly fallible.

Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

self-indulgence isn't something to be tolerated. It's a singularly American phenomenon, Dov and Abba believe—the child who thinks the world revolves around him.

Higgins, Helen was aware, was a singularly eccentric and troublesome colleague, who managed at the same time to be dull and cloddish to the point of sleep.