Single Word Quotes

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

  Eve Arnold

  Curiosity, Would Be, Use

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• ...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Falling In Love, Fall, Glances

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Design, Betray

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Lessons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

  Don Roff

  Writing, Stories, Length

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• The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

  Ashley Montagu

  Ice

  Ashley Montagu (1969). “Man, His First Two Million Years: A Brief Introduction to Anthropology”, Greenwood

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• We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

  Albert Ellis

  Essence, Neurosis, Blame

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• Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Ocean, Mean, Hands

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• In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

  Jonathan Clements

  Age, Modern, Refuse

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• Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

  Al Ries

  Business, Want, Scope

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

  Lauren Oliver

  Delirium, Bigger, Edges

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• I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Eight, Months

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• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Father, Heart

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• The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

  Stephen King

  Mirrors, Blood, Done

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
  The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
  The three most important are - 'If you please'
  The two most important are - 'Thank You'
  And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

  Denis Waitley

  Leadership, Two, Important

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• One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

  Takeda Nobushige

  War, Men, Long

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• The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Communication, Attention, Eras

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.108, Penguin

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• The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Communication, Silence, Existence

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.47, SUNY Press

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• I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Years, Desire, Might

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  Clarice Lispector

  Giving, Truthful, Interiors

  "The Hour of the Star". Book by Clarice Lispector, 1977.

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• Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Stories, Deep Meaning

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• My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Spokes, Whole Life

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