One Word Quotes - Page 12

• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

  Mo Willems

  Life Changing, Ideas, Library

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

  James Frey

  Mean, Feelings, Littles

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

  Douglas Wilder

  Eye, People, Definitions

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• People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Smile, Impact, Rushing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan

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• Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, Blow, America

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• I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

  Allan Savory

  Land, Years, People

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• One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

  William Alcott

  Vegetables, Asparagus, Plant

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• In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

  Paul Vitz

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

  Gus Van Sant

  Gay, Say Anything, Identity

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• I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Sound, Corny

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• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Scary, Frightening

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• If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

  George Soros

  Skills, Survival, Training

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• Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Enemy

  Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.8, NYU Press

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• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honour international obligations. I want to say for the purpose of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonour any international obligations it has undertaken.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Government, India

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• The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

  Lorde

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

  Edward Abbey

  Thousand, Right Words, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

  Bill Hicks

  Okay, Ready, Asks

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• Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a man without God. And coziness is the relationship between you and your purity, your piety and your principles to which you have agreed.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

  Albert Meltzer

  Opinion, Anarchist, Authority

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• Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  Marquis de Sade

  Strong, Evil, Perfect

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• Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Writing, Giving, Adjectives

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• If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  America, Giving, May

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