Best One Sentence Quotes
71 One Sentence quotes by 67 unique authors
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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
— Freeman Dyson
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in…
— Maria Montessori
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I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to…
— Asghar Farhadi
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There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.
— Mao Zedong
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We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100…
— Joan Blades
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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
— Lydia Davis
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If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!
— David Mermin
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the…
— William Shatner
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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…
— Brian Greene
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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
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
— Karl Marx
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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
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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…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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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…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
— William Faulkner
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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.…
— John McPhee
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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.…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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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…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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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…
— Charles Bukowski
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If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
— Neal Stephenson
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
— Ernest Hemingway
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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....…
— Eric Weiner
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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…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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