Quotes About One Word

#1. The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.

Karen Maitland

#2. Eskimos have five words for different kinds of snow, because they live with it and it is important to them. But the Aztec language has but one word for snow, rain, and hail.

Alan W. Watts

#3. Because words are powerful; they can hurt and wound, and one word can lead to a thousand horrors. So don't forget to be impeccable with your words.

Kunal Nayyar

#4. One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

Delano Johnson

#5. People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Pico Iyer

#6. It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Naomi Campbell

#7. I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

Robert Frost

#8. What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

Ayn Rand

#9. If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.

Tamara L. Chilver

#10. 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

#11. In recovery, it's all about putting one foot in front of the other. As a writer, it's all about putting one word next to another on a page.

Jennifer Storm

#12. A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.

C.J. Heck

#13. I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is masculinity.

Oren Moverman

#14. Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

Mark Hodder

#15. I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. 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

#16. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

Erika Johansen

#17. Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

L.M. Montgomery

#18. 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

#19. It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,
to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last.
"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever
forget ...

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

Paul Collier

#21. One word from you shall silence me forever.

Jane Austen

#22. This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

J.I. Packer

#23. Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" !

Paulo Coelho

#24. T."
One word, one letter, from Malcom.
"Yeah, Saint?" Tahoe returns, lifting his eyebrows.
"Dibs.

Katy Evans

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#26. 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

#27. Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. "Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it's just one word.

Darcy Ridge

#28. One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

David P. Ingerson

#29. The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

Soren Kierkegaard

#30. Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Pamela Morris

#31. There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is ... what you get other people to believe.

Tommy Smothers

#32. Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen

#33. Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

Sarah Ockler

#34. Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

Marilynne Robinson

#35. If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Confucius

#36. One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man .

Maxim Gorky

#37. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#38. I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

Tyler Hoechlin

#39. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Martin Luther

#40. My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you.
I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag'
She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you

Jeri Smith-Ready

#41. Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.

Emily Bronte

#42. She hoped I would send her some of my papers on neurology, of which I'll understand not one word, but will glow with loving pride at my ridiculous, brilliant and altogether delightful nephew.

Oliver Sacks

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

Jen Lancaster

#44. 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

#45. One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

Sarah Dessen

#46. But how could you believe me? after all the thousands of times i told you i loved you how could you let one word break your faith in me

Stephenie Meyer

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

#48. One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords

Mildred D. Taylor

#49. When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.

Georgia Cates

#50. In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Swami Vivekananda

#51. It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

Damien Hirst

#52. One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.

Tahereh Mafi

#53. Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

Michele Rosenthal

#54. Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Peter Kreeft

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

Dave Barry

#56. One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

F.C. Malby

#57. One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.

Jack Sparrow

#58. I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.

Antonio Machado

#59. The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.

Ted Dekker

#60. We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

Origen

#61. I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.

Tony Robbins

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

Albert Meltzer

#63. Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

Roy Haynes

#64. If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

Seth Klarman

#65. This god, this one word: I.

Ayn Rand

#66. Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

Andy Stanley

#67. Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Mae Jemison

#68. You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Anthony Marra

#69. I don't believe in texting while dining, sending one-word e-mails in lieu of formal thank-you cards, wearing shorts to the theater, or settling for any of the modern trends that favor comfort over politeness, ease over style. Manners are simply about asking yourself, What's the right thing to do?

Tim Gunn

#70. 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

#71. She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, "parallelogram!" and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That

O. Henry

#72. I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

Steve Martin

#73. One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me.

Kenny Chesney

#74. one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs

Andrew Murray

#75. Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Dan Shechtman

#76. Your word is more than : Only One Word.
Remember.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Petra Hermans

#77. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Irving Thalberg

#78. For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

Gore Vidal

#79. You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.

Eben Alexander

#80. America is best described by one word, freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#81. Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there

Ikkyu

#82. I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said ... but did not.

Anne Sexton

#83. Okay." He hesitated. One word. So far, not so good.

James Dashner

#84. 5:14 For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another! 5:16 So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Ronald L. Conte Jr.

#85. 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

#86. One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

Neil Gaiman

#87. One word frees us all the weight and pain of life:
That word is Love.
-Sophocles

Anne Gracie

#88. The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#89. Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.

Stephenie Meyer

#90. Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful.

Maria V. Snyder

#91. It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

Sophocles

#92. All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!

Samuel Colbran

#93. Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

Karl Barth

#94. The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

Adam Leipzig

#95. Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.

Bikram Choudhury

#96. Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.

James Dashner

#97. 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

#98. That a woman's happiness does not come through man's glory and honour, nor through his generosity and affection, but through love that unites both of their hearts and affections, making them one member of life's body and one word upon the lips of God.

Kahlil Gibran

#99. That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. It was evidently a term of reproach."

-Sherlock Holmes-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#100. I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Israel Broussard