One Day Quotes - Page 29

• There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.

  Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

  Night, Light, Way

  "Relativity" l. 1 (1923)

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• I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

  Kirk Douglas

  Love, Dream, Heart

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• You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.

  Daniel Quinn

  Love, Dream, Done

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• I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents expect to die? They took life for granted, as we do. How often do we hear stories of people whom we know, or even friends, who died unexpectedly? We don't even have to be ill to die: Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Fall, Order

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• I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Badass, Law, Dissent

  "Court Is ‘One of Most Activist,’ Ginsburg Says, Vowing to Stay" by Adam Liptak, www.nytimes.com. August 24, 2013.

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• I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

  Robin Hobb

  Horse, Lying, Past

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• We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

  David Gemmell

  Dark, Fighting, Dust

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• There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Hair, Opposites

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• Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Mean, Boys

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• Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

  Arthur Golden

  Flower, Grows, Withered

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• My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Wall, Book, Smell

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.45, Granta Books

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• 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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• At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.

  Rob Thurman

  Airplane, Television, Rooms

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.34, Penguin

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• Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Feet, Rope

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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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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• I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Angel, Missing, I Missed You

  "Silence". Book by Becca Fitzpatrick, October 4, 2011.

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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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• Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

  David Nicholls

  Sorry, Love You, Like You

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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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