Top 52 Describe In One Word Quotes

#1. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK

Elie Jerome

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#2. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Elizabeth Goudge

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#3. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Johnnetta B. Cole

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#4. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Lisa Belkin

Describe In One Word Quotes #17139
#5. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Jack London

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#6. The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.

Tucker Elliot

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#7. The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

Martha Hall Foose

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#8. They would ask people to do
something that is wrong? I thought angels were ... " She stumbled, trying to
think of a word to describe her preconceived notion. "Angelic," Jaycie Lerner

Natasha Larry

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#9. The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.

Lemony Snicket

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#10. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.

J.R. Ortiz

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#11. If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

Mal Peet

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#12. We need to a new word to describe Swiss happiness.

Eric Weiner

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#13. I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.

Elle King

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#14. I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Chuck Klosterman

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#15. I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just ... womanish.

Alice Walker

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#16. But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented

Molly Antopol

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#17. If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?"

Here's my response:

Unfair.

Jordan Sonnenblick

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#18. Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.

Annie Dillard

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#19. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Richard Engel

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#20. Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Michael Bloomberg

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#21. We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

Richard Machowicz

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#22. Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.

Guy Browning

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#23. [A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

Jonah Goldberg

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#24. Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel.

Antoinette Tuff

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#25. Mousy. It was the only word Travis could think to describe Mary Warner when she stepped off the plane. His heart sank and took a moment to rally itself. Long legs, that was all he'd asked for, and what did he get? Minnie Mouse.

Debbie Macomber

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#26. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

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#27. If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

Robert Higgs

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#28. But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Mark A. Rayner

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#29. It's also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it - just to name it - must have been like trying to catch something invisible. (pg 107)

Nicole Krauss

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#30. I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite ... you know ... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

Nick Frost

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#31. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Fannie Flagg

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#32. The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved.

Jennifer Grant

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#33. My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

Bruce Feiler

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#34. Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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#35. She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

John Podhoretz

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#36. When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Nicole Krauss

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#37. Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.

Prixie

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#38. Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Aubrey Plaza

Describe In One Word Quotes #505117
#39. Suppose the apprehension of beauty is itself a way to truth? Suppose that "elegance" - as the word is used by physicists to describe their discoveries - is a key to ultimate reality?

Rollo May

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#40. There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

Bobby Robson

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#41. Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Anonymous

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#42. Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.

Sara Zarr

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#43. I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

Belinda Jeffrey

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#44. Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?
Professor Jones: Yes, yes there is.

David Morgan-Mar

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#45. Blusterous -- adj. a word used to describe those Atmospheric Conditions in which one's ears are adversely affected {and possibly one's house}.

A.R. Melrose

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#46. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)

Neena Verma

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

Jen Lancaster

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#48. The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis - "beyond stillness" in Latin - an

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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#49. If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'

Bryce Harper

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#50. Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.

Jenny Nordberg

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#51. If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Andy Goldsworthy

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#52. Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

Dierks Bentley

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