One Day Quotes - Page 12

• With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ezra Pound (1970). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.447, New Directions Publishing

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Color

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• You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.

  Gena Showalter

  Running, Fall, Keep Running

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• Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

  Andrew Mango

  Senior, Decision, Tradition

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• Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

  Antonin Artaud

  Nails, Twisted, Lost

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• I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something.

  Perry Moore

  Falling In Love, Waiting, Infinite

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• One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  Talking, People, Matter

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Parent, Papa, Parks

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “The Lives of Christopher Chant (The Chrestomanci Series, Book 4)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Wall, Nice, Feet

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Book, Home, Knights

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.16, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Mom, Mother, Maintenance

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

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• One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

  Terry Pratchett

  Work Out, Trouble, Lad

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• If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

  Lisa Lutz

  Growing Up, War, Divorce

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• People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Attention, Pay

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• If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

  Max Brooks

  Block, Fire, Doors

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.47, Broadway Books

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• But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

  William Congreve

  Sweet, Wish, Dull

  William Congreve (1706). “The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve”, p.13

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• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  Albert Einstein

  Family, Children, School

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.56, Broadway Books

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• A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!

  Stephen King

  Writing, Men, Order

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• After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Writing, Ideas

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Ghetto, Eye

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

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• One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Glasses

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it

  Nicole Blackman

  Girl, Baby, Kissing

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