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But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them. — Mary Ann D'Alto

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. — George Eliot

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul. — Henrik Ibsen

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction. — Seth Klarman

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. — Baltasar Gracian

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be. — Joan Of Arc

Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring. — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.' — Sarah Shahi

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. — Jonah Winter

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one. — Franklyn Ajaye

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti

Sometimes it is given to us. One moment of clarity. One word laid down, cold and clattering, beside another. Ribbon of wet stone. — John Gilmore

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. — Marcel Duchamp

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember. — Jenny Han

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. — Toni Morrison

one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs — Andrew Murray

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley

The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word. — O. S. Hawkins

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered ... just one kind word to another person. — Fred Rogers

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. — Woodrow Wilson

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse. — Robert Musil

Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" ! — Paulo Coelho

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. — Silvio Berlusconi

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself. — Earl Weaver

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris

Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word. — Umberto Eco

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. — Goran Persson

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word. — F. E. Marsh

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. — Gustav Mahler

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning

A lot of profanities begin with "F". Word "failure" is one of them. — Veronica Purcell

Conceited is just another word for self-confident. And sometimes, the only confidence one can depend on is his own. — Suzannah Daniels

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended. — Mark Hodder

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written. — Anthony Marra

A word of encouragement is like light to one who is in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. — Robert A. Heinlein

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"Yeah, Saint?" Tahoe returns, lifting his eyebrows.
"Dibs. — Katy Evans

The true word of God is written in our heart. — KRS-One

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart. — Radhanath Swami

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love. — Sophocles

A one-word book does appeal to me. — Kode9

Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me. — Patricia Lynne

Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished? — Crystal Woods

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I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word. — Chamillionaire

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end. — Leonard Cohen

All of Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask. — Paul E. Miller

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other. — Dov Davidoff

Love is only A one syllable word but it's the most powerful one mankind's ever heard. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? — Jean Racine

Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it. — Rosie Thomas

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on. — Israel Broussard

Anthony, she had said, and with that one word,had given him not only herself but a new, better edited version of his future. — Jojo Moyes

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten. — Karen Maitland

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. — Laurence Sterne

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard. — Jerry Falwell

Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only. — Khaled Hosseini

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'? — Sarah Vowell

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. — Annie Lennox

In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy. — Marilyn French

Never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word
Paraphrased — Thomas Jefferson

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi

Not one word of the following is true — Stephen Fry

I had a million questions to ask life, and they were all answered by one word: love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth. — Geoffrey Knight

Blusterous -- adj. a word used to describe those Atmospheric Conditions in which one's ears are adversely affected {and possibly one's house}. — A.R. Melrose

He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last. — Cassandra Clare

Horrible sense of humor?" Hunter's eyes twinkled as he engaged in our banter. "Compared to your one-word witticisms, I'm a fountain of entertainment. — Katherine McIntyre

Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful. — Maria V. Snyder

I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more. — Tony Wilson

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. — Gloria Steinem

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin! — Peter Kreeft

Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition. — Francis Crick

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready? — Bill Hicks

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. — Robert H. Schuller

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word. — Robin Hobb

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. — Marilynne Robinson

A text from Fable and it says one word. Marshmallow — Monica Murphy

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. — Bram Stoker

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one ... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary. — Kathleen Hanna

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton. — Calvin Coolidge

This experiment succeeds especially well, we think, if the letters written on the board form by their ensemble one single word. — Anonymous

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me. — Philippe Petit

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably. — Will Durant