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  • I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

    Wall   Eye   Warrior  
    Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.116, Wizards of the Coast
  • I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

    India   Want   States  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing
  • Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

    Stories   Shells   Clamor  
  • His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

    Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.219, Penguin
  • One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan
  • If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

    Angel   Dark   Keys  
    "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.
  • Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

    Spring   Voice   Age  
    Clive Barker (2001). “Weaveworld”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

    League   Tasks   Might  
    V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC
  • From the conservatives, the - the battle cry for the last couple of years, especially from people like Ted Cruz, was repeal ObamaCare, every single word of ObamaCare. That is not the message from Donald Trump.

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  • Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

    John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation
  • Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

  • Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black
  • ...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

    Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House
  • I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

    Honesty   Heart   Men  
  • All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

  • The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

    Thinking   Matter   Grows  
  • Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

    Believe   Three   Creeds  
    Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

  • Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

    Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

    Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.7, Univ of California Press
  • 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 I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

    Clever   Long   Hearing  
    Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation
  • How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

    Clever   Mean   Hypocrisy  
    "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".
  • The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

    Bridges   Ego   Dolls  
  • I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

    Years   Desire   Might  
    "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.
  • She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

    Mother   Annoyed   Said  
    Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.7, Random House
  • The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

    Song   Truth   Writing  
  • I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

    Blood   Broke   Break  
    Mahmoud Darwish, “I Come From There”
  • "Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

  • If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

    "Briefwechsel". "Briefwechsel" by Johann Georg Hamann, 1955-1975.
  • I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

    Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library
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