Everyday Quotes - Page 8

• If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

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• I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Morning, Mean

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• I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

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• The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Three, Four

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.434, St. Martin's Press

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• Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Names, Noble

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• I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Hurt, Stupid, Kids

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

  Wallace Stevens

  World

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• Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

  Monica Ali

  Waiting, Looks, Gone

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• won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

  Lucille Clifton

  Hands, Bridges, Clay

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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• In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Long, Usual, Answers

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• The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Pain, Distance, Healing

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, World, Humans

  Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett (2011). “The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition”, p.185, Random House

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• Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Reality, Law

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• The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

  Joanne Harris

  Everyday Things, Magic, Warning

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• She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

  Lian Hearn

  Prayer, World, Holiness

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

  Larry McMurtry

  Disappointment, Everyday Things, Healthy

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Imagination, Degrees, Demand

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.13, Race Point Publishing

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Sacred

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Thinking, Passive Voice

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Fashion, Clothes, Shopaholic

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• Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

  Azar Nafisi

  Evil, Imagination, Soul

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.

  Ann M. Martin

  Other Worlds, Evil, Looks

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• A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

  Alan Watts

  Education, Learning, Buddhism

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

  Chris Abani

  Philosophy, Compassion, Simple

  "On humanity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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