One Word Quotes - Page 9

• One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Honesty, World, Ethics

  "Chinese newspaper in eye of censorship storm back on sale" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2013.

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• One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Tiny, Causes

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• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Law, Smoking

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

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• You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.

  Alexander Whyte

  Rivers, Long, Comfort

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• When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

  Stephen King

  Writing, Answers

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.17, Anchor

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Messages, Said

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.

  Jen Lancaster

  Would Be, Herpes

  Jen Lancaster (2013). “Here I Go Again: A Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

  Max Lucado

  Years, Choices, Grace

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Passion, Perfect

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Needs, Need You

  Maya Banks (2013). “Rush”, p.125, Penguin

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• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  W. S. Merwin

  Poetry, Lost, Ends

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Educational, Bridges

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• When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Book, People, Looks

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• Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Mirrors

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play
  And in one word, just nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vanity, Play, Shadow

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fear, Interesting, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

  Dave Barry

  Life And Love, Business, Humor

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Men, Answers

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Peace, Lying

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• The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Practice, Hypocrisy, East

  'Contarini Fleming' (1832) pt. 5, ch. 10

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• Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

  Noel Gallagher

  Boys, Oasis, Made

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