Do you love using single quotes in your writing? Do you find that they make your words more powerful and expressive? If so, you’re not alone. In this blog post, we’ve compiled some of our favorite examples of single quotes being used in an amazing way.

The best single quotes

1. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people. — William Penn

2. ‘in My City’ was my first single. It has a very special place in my heart, and I am beyond excited to bring the amazing energy of the track to the NFL’s passionate fans. — Priyanka Chopra

3. Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own. — Pat Riley

4. Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others). — Robin Sharma

5. I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. — Stephanie Mills

6. If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. — Yousuf Karsh

7. The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin! — Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

8. Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back. — Tarun Sharma

9. I don’t think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It’s not easy on anybody. — Reese Witherspoon

10. Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year–old peach in a single girl’s refrigerator. — Mel Brooks

11. We’ve got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization. — Peter Mandelson

12. All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose–red dawns. — Oscar Wilde

13. Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective. — Siri Hustvedt

14. There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes. — Tõnu Õnnepalu, Border State

15. The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion. — Stephen Jay Gould

16. A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

17. There’s no single movement out there. It’s not like in the ’60s, when Revolver came out and that’s just it for the next year. — Sean Lennon

18. What I do not like, the kind of high–resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close–ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin. — Werner Herzog

19. It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

20. I don’t know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I’m around her, it’s like I lose my shit. — Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

21. To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. — Thomas Jefferson

22. It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy. — Taylor Swift

23. But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That’s the reason why I was single. — Wilt Chamberlain

24. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air. — William Kent Krueger

25. Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process. — Stephen Richards, The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You Feel Tomorrow

26. Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING. — Mary Mihalic, The 40 Best Business Tips No One’s Ever Told You

27. That’s what it takes to get what you want. Not big scary leaps once a year. It takes small, but irritating moves every single day. — Mel Robbins

28. Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom. — Scott Adams

29. Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African–American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. — Mike Pence

30. Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever–every single day of forever. Will you marry me? — Stephenie Meyer

31. Every single night my arms are not around you my mind’s still wrapped around you. — Shawn Mendes

32. Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family? — Robert B. Reich

33. A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. — Thomas Jefferson

34. Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back. — Tarun Sharma

35. Only by binding together as a single force will we become strong and unconquerable — tepee

36. Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle–Why not I with thine? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

37. One relationship didn’t work out, but that doesn’t mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn’t representative of all of them. — Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park

38. Every single soul is a poem. — Michael Franti

39. You can’t create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt. — Mehmet Murat ildan

40. Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. — Therese of Lisieux

41. You made a choice–a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

42. Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. — Michael Jordan

43. I’m just happy that ‘Idol’ producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I’m every single woman. — Nicki Minaj

44. Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective. — Siri Hustvedt

45. A single change can sometimes change your entire life — Rahul Rampal

46. That when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. — Napoleon Hill

47. Singles hitters drive Fords. Home–run hitters drive Cadillacs. — Pete Rose

48. Fate is but a dying wish… Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free. — Youka Nitta, Embracing Love, Vol. 5

49. Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children. — Meryl Streep

50. I’m just happy that ‘Idol’ producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I’m every single woman. — Nicki Minaj

Conclusion

We hope that these inspiring quotes about being single have helped you find the strength to be independent and enjoy the life you have. Single life is an opportunity to explore, grow, and create yourself. Don’t be afraid to take advantage of it and make the most of it. And remember, “The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”