One Day Quotes - Page 23

• maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

  Jodi Picoult

  Soul, Promise, Mind

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• Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work again. You eat, but the next day, you are already hungry. You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old. - Wayan

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hard Work, Next Day, Finding Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.255, A&C Black

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• Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, People, Stories

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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• I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

  Alice Sebold

  Forever, Safe, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

  Michael Robotham

  Thinking, Different, Knows

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• It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

  Sarah Dunn

  New York, Autumn, Blue

  Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Memories, Thinking, Would Be

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Achievement, Challenges

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• Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Noble, Firsts, Misery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

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• There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Odds, Feet

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.84, Bantam

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• I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Writing, Asking

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.90, Delacorte Press

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• Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

  David Nicholls

  New Years Resolution, Principles, Chance

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Knowing, Evil, Tree

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• No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them, and with a mocking smile, mouthed the words, I dare you!" (Cassie Sinclair) *** He smiled at the challenge. One day, she just might dare him too far, but he doubted it would be a bullet he'd penetrate her with. (Unknown Breed)

  Lora Leigh

  Gun, Sight, Challenges

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• Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

  Gayle Forman

  Pain, Scared, Kind

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• Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

  Carrie Underwood

  Morning, Night, Color

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• It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

  John Steinbeck

  Humble, Fighting, Lazy

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Years, Lips

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.73, Faber & Faber

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• You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could have been with each other. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!" She clamped her teeth on her trembling bottom lip to steady herself

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Distance, Loving Life

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• So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

  Justin Cronin

  Worry, Desire, Realizing

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.454, Ballantine Books

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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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• Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return

  David Bowie

  Wise, Kings, Eye

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• It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Trying, Different

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• One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.

  William Saroyan

  Fun, Lucky, Afternoon

  William Saroyan (1964). “One day in the afternoon of the world”

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• But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Firsts, Helpful

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