One Day Quotes - Page 15

• Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Forever, Desire

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.284, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.

  Nora Roberts

  Block, Home, Fate

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Tempting Fate: The MacGregors”, p.85, Penguin

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• Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, May, Next

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.89, Wild Jot Press

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• Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might rethink such a stupid sentiment. I suppose the point is to wait for your love to come back to you voluntarily. I wonder if there’s a difference between setting something free and letting it go? I probably did it wrong. I should stop taking advice from my radio. I worry that you’re lost. I keep a heart-shaped cage unlocked for you, out on the street where it can easily be seen. So if one day you return at least you’ll have a place to stay.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stupid, Heart, Wings

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• I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Believe, Angel, Loss

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• Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Secret, Important, Stories

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• When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Catharsis, Painful

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sunset, Four, One Love

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• Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

  Georgette Heyer

  Curls, Lips, Achieve

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• Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Air, Hands

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.143, Broadway Books

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• I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.” -In the yellow time of pollen

  Luke Davies

  Yellow, Snow, Water

  Luke Davies, “Totem (I)”

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• You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Laughter, Book, Grateful

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• Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

  John Green

  Sweet, Flirty, Next

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

  Galileo Galilei

  Distance, Humanity, Progress

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• ...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Alarms, May

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• And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, People, Distribution Of Wealth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.

  George R. R. Martin

  Moving, Moon, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1212, Bantam

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• How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

  Muriel Barbery

  Important, Dying, Facts

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

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• I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

  Sarah MacLean

  Made, Not Sure, Mess

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• She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.

  Jacob Grimm

  Fall, Feels

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• Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Children, Men, Parent

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.269, The Floating Press

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• I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was to strong for me.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Strong, Tired, Fighting

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• I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Baby, Bullying, Anger

  "Education and the Social Order". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 31, 1932.

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