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Quote Left The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Quote Right
Quote Left One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it Quote Right
Quote Left And he who wields white wild magic gold is a paradox - for he is everything and nothing, hero and fool, potent, helpless - and with one word of truth or treachery he will save or damn the Earth because he is mad and sane, cold and passionate, lost and found. Quote Right
Quote Left What is clearer than that man is not furnished for hunting, much less for eating, other animals? In one word, we seem to be admirably admonished by Cicero that man was destined for other things than for seizing and cutting the throats of other animals. If you answer, 'that may be said to be an industry ordered by Nature, by which such weapons are invented,' then, behold, it is by the very same artificial instrument that men make weapons for mutual slaughter. Do they this at the instigation of Nature? Can a use so noxious be called natural? Faculty is given by Nature, but it is our own fault that we make a perverse use of it. Quote Right
Quote Left The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. Quote Right
Quote Left I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. Quote Right
Quote Left The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity. Quote Right
Quote Left To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Quote Right
Quote Left There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. Quote Right
Quote Left One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. Quote Right
Quote Left Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace Quote Right
Quote Left .... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Quote Right
Quote Left When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of am... Quote Right
Quote Left Most of what is unsual about man can be summed up in one word: 'culture'. Quote Right
Quote Left Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. Quote Right
Quote Left If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent. Quote Right
Quote Left Before I sit down I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives, or sweethearts will be very well looked after. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. Quote Right
Quote Left Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Quote Right
Quote Left Lora May: Did you ever stop to think, Porter, that in over three years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fun. Port... Quote Right
Quote Left Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible. Quote Right
Quote Left Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize. Quote Right
Quote Left Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. Technology Quote Right
Quote Left The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Quote Right
Quote Left Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it. Quote Right
Quote Left One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
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Member Quotes About One Word

Quote Left When I start to write, I try to make of myself a blank slate...left with just the impulse that got me there, at the lone scrimmage. I sit quietly...waiting.... Until an interesting thought or phrase, can be even one word eagerly presenting itself. Then I begin the poem, letting the impulse lead beyond. To me, poetry, along with everything else a writer uses for definition and motivation, above all else is viewed as sacred -- alive and independent literary expression in a manic, schizoid way:) Quote Right
Quote Left One thought one pill, one punch one thrill, every great work is one word away. Quote Right
Quote Left Small but numerous, 'dots' make a line besides small steps lead to huge platform. Small is an opposite to huge but together they just describe or exaggerate a life of human and these two words aligning together makes an easier one words to describe itself and its presence and i.e. 'patience' Quote Right
Quote Left The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who SEEK it. Credit George Orwell for all but one word... Quote Right
Quote Left "Poets are scribes from heaven...sent to earth to help better it one word at a time" Quote Right
Quote Left All it takes is one word or gesture to give a smile or change someones attitude Quote Right
Quote Left There are so many domestic crises, but the solution is one word contentment. Quote Right
Quote Left I'm starting to see through your lies one word at a time. There isn't a thing stopping me from healing now. Quote Right

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