One Day Quotes - Page 25

• Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

  Nalini Singh

  Song, Heart, Men

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Archangel's Storm”, p.77, Penguin

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• And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

  Ian Fleming

  Butterfly, Games, Finding Yourself

  IAN FLEMING (1954). “LIVE AND LET DIE”

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• One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Mother, Wall, Sorry

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• His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!

  Paul Valery

  Heart, Islands, Grace

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• Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

  Jasper Fforde

  Majority, Lessons, Thursday

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love Is, Men, Years

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Order, Lasts

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.281, Wordsworth Editions

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• And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Memories, Writing, Stories

  "Fictional character: Julia Jarmond". "Sarah's Key", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.

  Makoto Shinkai

  Growing Up, Mean, Proud

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• It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Hours, Enough

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• I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . . 

  Katy Evans

  Dream, Blue, Lips

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Time, Machines, Clock

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.7, Penguin

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• One day/
  One day I waited for myself/
  I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/
  So I could know just who I am/
  I who know others.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Time, Who I Am, Said

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1971). “Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire”, p.75, New Directions Publishing

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• Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

  Ralph Hodgson

  Time, Men, Caravans

  Poems (1917) "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"

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• He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

  Hannah More

  Time, Sick, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 583), 1895.

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• There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, People, World

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

  Christopher Moore

  Drinking, Men, Perfectly Good

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

  Jeff Kinney

  Kids, Next Day, Hot

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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Long, Chance

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Morning, Real, Love Is

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• It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

  Jon Stewart

  Mother, Moon, Men

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• She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Heart, Fate

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• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Giving Up, Passion

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

  Chris Cleave

  Clouds, Weather, Trying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• From the first, you enchanted me. You are more than beautiful. You are smart and strong and determined. When I'm with you. I want to be a better man. I want to be worthy of you. I want to provide for you I want to give you the life you deserve. One day, I will. Because I know, deep in my soul, that to part is to die. - Gideon to Scarlet (wedding vows)

  Gena Showalter

  Beautiful, Strong, Smart

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