Top 100 In One Word Quotes
#1. Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#2. The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.
Marci Shimoff
#3. There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.
Isak Dinesen
#4. If one were to ask ... "What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft" ... ?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#5. Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
Earl Weaver
#6. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi
#7. If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in one word, civility.
Linda Leaming
#8. I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.
Judy Blundell
#9. If I could define myself in one word it would be "hopeful
Troy Smith
#10. I'll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.
Keith Ferrazzi
#11. Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.
Ryan Jarman
#12. The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.
Carl Zimmer
#13. If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
#14. What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
Billy Graham
#15. A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death - In one word, emotions.
Samuel Fuller
#16. The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
Georgette Mosbacher
#17. I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
Leonard Cohen
#18. In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
Herman Melville
#19. 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
#20. If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
Gary Bettman
#21. I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
Francis Ford Coppola
#22. To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin.
Billy Graham
#23. You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'
Joaquin Andujar
#24. A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
Kenneth Tynan
#25. I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.
Leigh Hunt
#26. 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
#27. Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.
Michael Faraday
#28. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston S. Churchill
#29. The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.
Kevin D. Mitnick
#30. Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
Randy Pausch
#31. In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it ... research.
Tom Lehrer
#32. If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.
Ayn Rand
#33. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
Linda Sue Park
#35. I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.
Jonathan Ames
#36. 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
#37. All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga - Samadhi.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!
Jules Verne
#39. There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
Judith Briles
#40. In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
Bertrand Russell
#41. If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. 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
#44. I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
Tony Robbins
#45. An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.
Wim Wenders
#46. There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Woodrow Wilson
#47. That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
Francois Hollande
#48. 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
#49. Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
Graham Elliot
#50. I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
Mae Jemison
#52. In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert Meltzer
#53. I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.
Tony Robbins
#55. My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
Edward Weston
#56. Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be ... herpes.
Jen Lancaster
#57. 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
#58. Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
George Washington
#59. If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#60. My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
Ron Cooper
#61. My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.
Huey Lewis
#63. I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
#64. We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!
Catharine Beecher
#65. The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude
Wallace D. Wattles
#66. If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'
Bryce Harper
#67. There was only one thought that settled, as calmly as a cat finding a spot of sun to sleep in. One word that felt inevitable, as they kissed and nibbled and quietly laughed with the delirium of it. Home.
Georgia Clark
#68. The truth about this existence of ours ... can be summed up in one word: Live
Paulo Coelho
#69. The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
John Adams
#70. If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
Andy Goldsworthy
#71. If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. s the whole law is fulfilled in one word: t "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 15But if you u bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Anonymous
#73. If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!
James Joseph Sylvester
#74. I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
J.G. Ballard
#75. What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed ... . Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI MAGESA, African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life
Christopher Ryan
#76. In one word, it is called Politics. But if you see closely, it is called Religion and Faith
Rudra Kapalin
#77. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8
Peter J. Leithart
#78. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?
Hannah Moskowitz
#79. Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.
Catherine Cookson
#80. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#81. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.
Paul Eluard
#82. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#83. Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
Tamora Pierce
#84. 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
#85. Coward is the most misused word in our society.
Doug Stanhope
#86. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
John Steinbeck
#87. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.
Joan Wickersham
#88. No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.
Sappho
#89. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.
Ford Madox Ford
#90. It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
Billy Collins
#91. Savory ... that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
Ray Bradbury
#92. We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
Alberto Villoldo
#93. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.
Mary Louise Pratt
#94. I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy
#95. Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
Nikki Grimes
#96. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.
Nancy Horan
#97. This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
Jazz Feylynn
#98. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#99. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#100. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore De Balzac
