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• My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

  Huey Lewis

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Tiny, Causes

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Compassion, Forever

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

  John Green

  Thinking, Opposites, Forever

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

  Lin Biao

  Mao, Thousand, Wells

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Needs, Need You

  Maya Banks (2013). “Rush”, p.125, Penguin

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• Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Passion, Perfect

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

  David Levithan

  Mind, Impulse

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.76, Egmont UK

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

  Jen Lancaster

  Would Be, Herpes

  Jen Lancaster (2013). “Here I Go Again: A Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Messages, Said

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• 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

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Trust, Character

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• Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Educational, Bridges

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• I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Two, Atlantic City

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• All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

  Jeet Thayil

  Writing, Bombay, Beginnings And Endings

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• One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

  Harold Klemp

  Clever, Kindness, Love Is

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• Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

  Jeremy Gilley

  One Day, Bricks, Steps

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• Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard
  I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

  Chamillionaire

  Hip Hop, Dumb, Nerd

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• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  George Matthew Adams

  Success, Encouragement, Character

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• Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

  Bill Peterson

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Depressing, Struggle, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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