Next Week Quotes - Page 3

• Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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• There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

  Elie Wiesel

  Rain, Thinking, Next Day

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time with you, you say. If we're still good, next week maybe. That's the most we can hope for. Nothing thrown, nothing said that we might remember for years. You watch me while you put a brush through your hair. Each strand that breaks is as long as my arm. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

  Junot Diaz

  Letting Go, Hurt, Boys

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• The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Science, Ipods

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• recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

  Alice Meynell

  Years, Mind, Suffering

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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• I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Home, Thinking, Clothes

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Eye, Self, Should Have

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Strong, Thinking

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• In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

  Louis Rukeyser

  Wall, Streets, Hard

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• It's darn today, damn tomorrow, and next week it'll be goddamn.

  Louise Meriwether

  Today, Tomorrow, Trouble

  Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.28, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you. And at this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Keys, People, Giving

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

  Katarina Witt

  Thinking, Next Day, Long

  Katarina Witt (2007). “Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life”, Public Affairs

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• The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Finding Happiness, Way, Next

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• To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.

  Lily Tomlin

  Cameras, Littles, Firsts

  "Lily Tomlin, actress & comedian". Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

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• As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Hero, Suspense

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Part of me was fascinated by the idea that I would only get next week's episode a week in advance and wouldn't actually know where I was going with it, until the script landed on my mat. But, part of me wanted to know what was going to happen.

  Mark Strong

  Ideas, Scripts, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Gun, Different

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• The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Names, Voice

  "Decision-Making Tips From Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4

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• What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Afternoon, Consideration

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• Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

  Jim Rohn

  Life Changing, Book, Years

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• In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

  Paul Theroux

  Japan, Years, Turkeys

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

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• From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Writing, Media, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

  Garrison Keillor

  Views, Long, Lucky

  "Inside Garrison Keillor’s fabled world of ‘A Prairie Home Companion’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2014.

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