Single Word Quotes

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

  Eve Arnold

  Curiosity, Would Be, Use

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• ...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Falling In Love, Fall, Glances

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Design, Betray

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Lessons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Blood, Broke, Break

  Mahmoud Darwish, “I Come From There”

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• 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

  Thinking, Weight, Deeds

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• There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Philosophy, Loss

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

  Gail Carriger

  Night, Dinner, Lasts

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

  George Orwell

  Men, Answers, Problem

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Tongue, Swear

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Song, Clever, Expression

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Mean, Hypocrisy

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons." "Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.

  Rick Riordan

  Glasses, Doors, Amazon

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• 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

  Kids, Night, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  What Matters, Careers, Long

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• For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Blessing, Twists

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• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Single, Real, Adventure

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on worthlessness in a world that could never wrap it’s head around him (so don’t even try). When it’s all over just remember every single word you ever said was always just a bullet to his head. Bury him underground between friends and love - the only things that are gonna make it to the end with him. Look for his body buried beneath where the yellow weeds are growing and know he’s still living in his nightmares.

  Pete Wentz

  Weed, Boys, Men

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• 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

  Thinking, Feelings, Degrees

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.38, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Memories, Kissing, People

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