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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. — Pat Conroy

A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of — Rosemarie Yusen

I nodded but couldn't form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally ... — Christina Lauren

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

A single word leaned against the girl. — Markus Zusak

I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language. — S.M. Reine

There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables. — Victor Hugo

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

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud. — Robert Higgs

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word. — Thomas Cleary

Best seller material, and she didn't have to write a single word. — A.L. Mabry

Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story. — Samantha Shannon

I raise Reed's crushed, gray feather into the air. With my dying breath, I utter a single word in Angel, Champion. — Amy A. Bartol

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God. — Meister Eckhart

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God. — Bill Hybels

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words — Brennan Manning

The temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. — Arthur Koestler

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. — Walt Whitman

I typed in a single word: Vampre. Google asked, 'Did you mean vampire?' I said, 'Yes. — The Harvard Lampoon

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication. — Bernadette Roberts

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.' — Brad Leithauser

Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better. — Al Ries

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream. — Pamela Morris

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams

A single wise word bringing peace to the listener is worth more than a thousand speeches of empty words. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. — Daniel H. Pink

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ... — Cardinal Richelieu

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! — Oscar Wilde

I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul ... — Emily Dickinson

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:
REDRUM — Stephen King

Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag!
It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word. — Prerak Trivedi

Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me. — Jim Butcher

God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime — Charles F. Stanley

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! — Gaston Bachelard

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention. — Andre Gide

He hasn't spoken a single word to me yet, but his actions have said a million thank yous. — Colleen Hoover

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

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

A single fleeting word has the power to make or break a person. — Tammy Faith

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always. — Ann Aguirre

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994. — Michael Mayer

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.' — Honore De Balzac

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work. — Carl Sagan

Falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance. — Ian McEwan

A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances. — William Landay

I would be speaking even with my silence, because at the moment I am nothing but a single word. — Franz Kafka

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver

So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Milan Rufus

Why, if ever again... you dare to mention a single word... about my mother... I shall send you flying downstairs!" "What's — Anton Chekhov

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build. — Auliq Ice

Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill? — Margaret Atwood

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. — Steven Pinker

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. — Jonathan Clements

Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM. — Stephen King

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis

Into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don't know any other — Beth Moore

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 release anxiety from his spirit. — Ibn Hazm

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. — Mel Torme

People do judge books by their covers; it's human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth. — Jeff Garvin

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way. — Guy Delisle

The good thing about being on a show like 'Justified' is that you stick to the premise, but not necessarily every single word that's on the page. — Mykelti Williamson

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word. — Gautama Buddha

Breathtaking, adj.
Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. — David Levithan

In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies. — Cara McKenna

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word. — Laurie Seidler

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together. — Rivera Sun

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace. — Gautama Buddha

All the scholastic scaffolding
falls, as a ruined edifice,
before one single word - faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day. — Led Zeppelin

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. — Justin Townes Earle

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word. — Gautama Buddha

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig Von Mises

But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere

A single word often betrays a great design. — Jean Racine

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word
Man — George Orwell

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. — Henry David Thoreau

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word. — Ben Gibbard

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation. — Rajneesh

Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother's face a hundred times in a single afternoon. — Markus Zusak

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story. — Derek Webb

Monodynamic (adj.) Having only a single talent. The technical word to describe a one-trick pony. Moreish — Ammon Shea

God is a universal iconic performer, every single eye pays attention when He performs His word. — Euginia Herlihy

Yes, she probably thought he was a few displays short of an exhibition, seeing as he had yet to utter a single word. — Liz Bower

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

If I ever see a man in a rug again, I'm not going to believe a single word he says! A man who lies about having hair will lie about anything. — Joanne Fluke

True love is felonious ... You take someone's breath away ... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word ... You steal a heart. — Jodi Picoult

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying. — Larry Trask

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door. — Nat Hentoff

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. — Clarice Lispector

Strange how the sound of a single word can hurt more than a ruined shoulder, cut deeper than a bloody gash. — Amy Engel