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People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now. -- John C. Maxwell
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. -- Paula McLain
The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.' -- Dalai Lama
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. -- Karl Marx
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. -- W. P. Kinsella
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. -- Mark Twain
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. -- Albert Einstein
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. -- John McPhee
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace. -- Maria Montessori
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? -- Chris Bohjalian
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after. -- Mickey Rooney
Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. -- Barbara Jordan
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication. -- Stephen Covey
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings. -- Jack Kerouac
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death. -- Suzanne Collins
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing -- David Lodge
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department. -- Jamaica Kincaid
A great man is one sentence. -- Clare Boothe Luce
What is your one-sentence job description? -- Andy Stanley
No one wants to go out mid-sentence. -- Johnny Depp
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. -- Jasper Fforde
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence. -- Mason Cooley
A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence. -- Dai Vernon
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. -- Ernest Hemingway
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. -- Lauren Hutton
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. -- Zig Ziglar
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. -- Ernest Hemingway
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. -- Kurt Vonnegut
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. -- Emilio Botin
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. -- Joseph Campbell
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. -- Richard Flanagan
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. -- Katy Lederer
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. -- William Faulkner
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. -- William Gibson
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition. -- Maggie Stiefvater
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. -- Pete Sampras
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide. -- David Mamet
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. -- Malik Bendjelloul
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. -- Adrian Grenier
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written. -- Ellen G. White
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. -- Ernest Hemingway
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. -- Freeman Dyson
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. -- Wislawa Szymborska
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? -- Neal Stephenson
A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. -- Paul Reiche III
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. -- M. F. K. Fisher
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. -- Salman Rushdie
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. -- Wilson Follett
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. -- Sterling W Sill
People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence. -- J. L. Carr
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another -- David Lodge
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. -- Virginia Woolf
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. -- Helen Hunt
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. -- Thomas A. Edison
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. -- Gloria Naylor
There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence. -- Christopher Pike
Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough. -- Seth Klarman
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. -- Lewis Black
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. -- Demi Lovato
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots. -- Jason Schwartzman
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots -- Jason Schwartzman
If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up! -- Tony Lema
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. -- Noel Gallagher
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. -- Arthur Brisbane
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time. -- P. D. James
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' -- Wilson Mizner
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. -- Melissa Bank
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate! -- David Mermin
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. -- Carl Hiaasen
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified. -- Mao Zedong
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. -- Asghar Farhadi
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality. -- Emma Goldman
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all. -- Paulo Coelho
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. -- Paul Horgan
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. -- Neil Gaiman
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. -- Eben Alexander
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work. -- Stephen Colbert
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
I don't smoke a lot of pot anymore. No one wants to hang around a guy who ends every sentence with, "Do you guys hate me?" -- Mike Birbiglia
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. -- Amy Hempel
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant. -- Brenda Ueland
I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key. -- Lorrie Moore
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose. -- Tahereh Mafi
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All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy. -- Joseph Sugarman
You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better. -- Ron Johnson
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. -- Vladimir Nabokov
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. -- Don DeLillo
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, -- Charles James
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English. -- George Saunders
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence. -- Ahmet Zappa
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.... -- Richard Cecil
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. -- Richard Cecil
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable. -- Confucius
I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. -- Brian Greene
I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he did? He made everybody else without dreams feel real bad. -- Christopher Titus
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion. -- David Icke
I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description. -- Paul Lisicky
I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most. -- John Assaraf
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind... -- Joshua Reynolds

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