One Sentence Quotes - Page 2

• The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Earth, May

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.420, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

  Paul Reiche III

  Fun, Games, Design

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• True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Ideas, Sentences

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.37, AudioInk

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• Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

  Mickey Rooney

  Scotch, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

  Barbara Jordan

  Immigration, Should, Credibility

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• If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

  Neal Stephenson

  Speak, Form, Sincerely

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Class, Symbolism

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• I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  White, People, Wife

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• If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Motivational, Writing, Marine

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.127, Macmillan

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• I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

  William Faulkner

  Trying, Caps, Periods

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Party

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• to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

  David Lodge

  Curiosity, Desire, Trying

  David Lodge (2012). “Small World”, p.27, Random House

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• I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Goal, Looks

  "Greene, With Curiosity" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

  Helen Hunt

  People, Dinner, Arguing

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• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religion, Sound, Sentences

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• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Party, Simple

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• How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn’t damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Cutting, Bruises

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.802, Macmillan

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• Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Work, Writing, Use

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• But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

  Chris Bohjalian

  Doe, Lines, Matter

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Apr 04, 2015

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• Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Morning, Sitting, Dull

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• He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Talking, Two, Guy

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

  Paula McLain

  Writing, Simple, Satisfied

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Snow, Impossible

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.

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• There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

  Christopher Pike

  Judging, Would Be, Trials

  Christopher Pike (2009). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”

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