Single Word Quotes

140 Single Word quotes by 121 unique authors

Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… — William Butler Yeats
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story. — Derek Webb
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. — Don Roff
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice. — Ashley Montagu
The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word… — Frederick Douglass
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever… — Oscar Wilde
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.' — Honore de Balzac
Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it… — Chris Kluwe
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible… — Galileo Galilei
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one… — Oscar Wilde
No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to… — Ibn Hazm
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett
What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity. — Eve Arnold
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. — Justin Townes Earle
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. — Johann Georg Hamann
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never… — Og Mandino
I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s… — Lauren Weisberger
If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently,… — Sue Thoele
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. — Leo Tolstoy
If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this – Oh, brother, sister, friend,… — Grace Noll Crowell
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! — Gaston Bachelard
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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