Top 100 Word In Single Quotes

#1. How is it that a kiss can say so much?

Saying I love you is huge, but to kiss someone who has told you that means everything. A kiss speaks the truth, and I know. I know in his kisses, that he means every single word.

Heather Gunter

Word In Single Quotes #5703
#2. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

Rachel Held Evans

Word In Single Quotes #21277
#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

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#4. Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother's face a hundred times in a single afternoon.

Markus Zusak

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#5. Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you go for a walk with your dog, talk to it all the time.

George Mikes

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#6. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.

Victor Hugo

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#7. But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.

Wislawa Szymborska

Word In Single Quotes #88019
#8. Sparrow, if I stood in front of witnesses today, I would promise to love you and honour you and only you for the rest of my life, and I would mean every single word.

Willow Aster

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#10. I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

Charles Simic

Word In Single Quotes #162169
#11. From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

Halldor Laxness

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#12. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word
Man

George Orwell

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#13. So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings.

Milan Rufus

Word In Single Quotes #215400
#14. I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Eva Braun

Word In Single Quotes #216013
#15. You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?

Andrea Leadsom

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#16. She had driven in by a single word a little golden nail, the sharp intention of which he signally felt. He

Henry James

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#17. He was dangerous - she felt it down in her very soul. The price of this young man's freedom would be forged from pain, death, and fire. "Yes," she said. The single word sealed her fate. Standing there on the steep Limerian cliffs, she was ready to watch the world burn.

Morgan Rhodes

Word In Single Quotes #269860
#18. Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.

Rupi Kaur

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#19. The ancients say that one note of a song is twenty times more powerful than a single word, and that only in song can truth be clearly perceived, for though words can harbor lies, music cannot abide them.

Nicole Evelina

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#20. The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Thomas Cleary

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#21. The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.

Louise Hay

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#22. 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

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

Winston Churchill

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#24. Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent;
For if thou utt'rest but a single word,
A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech,
I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth,
To bellow with the damn'd!

Joanna Baillie

Word In Single Quotes #402881
#25. It created a murmur of voices, from which no single word could be discerned. Instead, it synthesized the sound of bees buzzing around in a mad swarm, angered by a breach of their hive.

Ashley DiMuzio

Word In Single Quotes #411747
#26. Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Rajneesh

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#27. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Evan Hunter

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#28. she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn't understand a single word of the happy gibberish.

William R. Forstchen

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#29. (In 2006, social psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, coined the word singlism to mean "the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single.")

Kate Bolick

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#30. At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#31. It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Word In Single Quotes #513311
#32. Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights ... sexual intercourse! ... His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Mark Twain

Word In Single Quotes #514674
#33. Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

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#34. I raise Reed's crushed, gray feather into the air. With my dying breath, I utter a single word in Angel, Champion.

Amy A. Bartol

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#35. Falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance.

Ian McEwan

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#36. Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#37. Friendship is usually treated ... as a tough ... thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word ...

Ouida

Word In Single Quotes #587112
#38. The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.

Stephen Cosgrove

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#39. There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Richard Thompson

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#40. Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.

Auliq Ice

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#41. As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#42. Please stop using the word "Negro." ... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

Mary Church Terrell

Word In Single Quotes #627623
#43. As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Susanna Kearsley

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#44. In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

Louis Pasteur

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#45. I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

Mila Kunis

Word In Single Quotes #655038
#46. Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don't search for you they don't find you. They don't take notice of you. They don't even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia!

Lily Amis

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

Al Ries

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#48. Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.

Steven Pinker

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#49. In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

Carl Sagan

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#50. America is not the project of any one person. Because the single-most powerful word in our democracy is the word "We." "We The People." "We Shall Overcome." "Yes We Can." That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone.

Barack Obama

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#51. Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

Rajneesh

Word In Single Quotes #751981
#52. The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

Stanislaw Lem

Word In Single Quotes #765249
#53. The recruit was screaming. Veins bulged in his neck. His mouth contorted as he summoned all of his strength to roar one, single word. Joana.

Ruta Sepetys

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#54. Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.

Georg Brandes

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#55. It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.

V.S. Carnes

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#56. In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#57. Pelapi. It is an old word. There is no single word like it in English. It means 'librarian,' but also 'apprentice,' or perhaps 'student.

Scott Hawkins

Word In Single Quotes #794392
#58. The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.

James Joyce

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#59. As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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#60. I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language.

S.M. Reine

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#61. No commentary, Nora. Please," he said as he pushed an arm inside the mare.
"I won't say a single word," she pledged as she took the horse's head in her lap. "Except that this reminds me of my last date with Griffin.

Tiffany Reisz

Word In Single Quotes #833235
#62. She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

Marguerite Duras

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#63. I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!

Emil Cioran

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#64. I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

David Levithan

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#65. The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Ayn Rand

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#66. To complete our account of Marx's main ideas, therefore, we need to ask: what kind of society did Marx hope would take the place of capitalism? This question is easily answered in a single word: communism. It is difficult to answer it more adequately, that is, to say what Marx meant by communism.

Anonymous

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#67. So help me God," I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. "If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won't stop, not ever, until I've destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.

Alexandra Bracken

Word In Single Quotes #912612
#68. It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan

Cath Crowley

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#69. Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

Lauren Oliver

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#70. What are you doing?" she cried in protest.
"Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Linda Howard

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#71. I nodded but couldn't form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally ...

Christina Lauren

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#72. In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies.

Cara McKenna

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#73. When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

Hilary Duff

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

Albert Ellis

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#75. Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Franz Kafka

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#76. I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

Vladimir Lenin

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#77. Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

Mary Balogh

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#78. The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

Jean Baudrillard

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#79. Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That's before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

Nelson Searcy

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#80. What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

Jeanette Winterson

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#81. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

Laini Taylor

Word In Single Quotes #1093720
#82. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.

Arthur W. Pink

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#83. The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#84. Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

Dada Bhagwan

Word In Single Quotes #1124019
#85. When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#86. I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you're not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky.

Jessye Norman

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#87. History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Word In Single Quotes #1201825
#88. I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

Ice-T

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#89. His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

Ann Aguirre

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#90. The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.

Alice Walker

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#91. The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

Lois Wyse

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#92. Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

Margaret Atwood

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#93. Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ...

Meg Rosoff

Word In Single Quotes #1299008
#94. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me

Witold Gombrowicz

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#95. I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes ... put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

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#96. I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

Hampton Sides

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#97. Despite his evasiveness and his determination to hew to a single message, Jobs was a vivid presence. The intensity of his self-confidence made me hang on his every word. He spoke in carefully constructed sentences, even when trying to answer an unexpected question.

Brent Schlender

Word In Single Quotes #1341825
#98. Funny how a single word can change everything in your life."
"It is not funny at all. Steel is power. Money is power. But of all the things in all the worlds, words are power.

Pierce Brown

Word In Single Quotes #1346954
#99. In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

Thomas Szasz

Word In Single Quotes #1361148
#100. Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.

Bernard Jan

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