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368 One Word quotes by 306 unique authors

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary… — Herman Melville
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white… — Steven Pinker
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty. — Chuck Yeager
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic… — Janet Fitch
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be… — Confucius
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron
If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself.… — Thornton T. Munger
A wise man hears one word and understands two. — Edgar Allan Poe
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness. — Will Rogers
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
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In… — Blaise Pascal
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. — Noel Gallagher
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. — Daniel Kahneman
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' — Max Lucado
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. — W S Merwin
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. — Michel de Montaigne
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and… — Rachel Nichols

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