One Sentence Quotes

• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

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• If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

  Tyler Cowen

  Simple, Ties, Innovation

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• A great man is one sentence.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Great Men, Sentences

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• The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Harm, Sentences

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• Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Stories, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.109, Penguin

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• Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Helping, Born

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3038, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Healing, Keys

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Play, Two

  Source: news.postimees.ee

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• People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

  Tony Lema

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Sentences

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

  Emilio Botin

  Political, Intellectual, Sentences

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• In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Three, Dots, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Space, Matter

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• ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Car

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Curves, Ideas

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• All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Moving, Knowledge

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-2, 1964.

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• I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

  Garth Ennis

  Hands, People, Abuse

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• A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

  Robert Harris

  Book, Writing, Infinite

  Robert Harris (2010). “The Ghost Writer”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspire, Stories, Share

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.59, Feiwel & Friends

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• almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.

  Rona Jaffe

  Mean, Discipline, Feelings

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Writing, Next, Firsts

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• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

  Eben Alexander

  Brain, Body, Spirit

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• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

  Richard Flanagan

  Mean, Sentences

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

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