One Day Quotes - Page 5

• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  Paul Klee

  Lying, Angel, Sides

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• I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

  John Green

  Time, School, Winter

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, Way Forward, Gone

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage

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• One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Tired, Arrows

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• He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hurt, Two, Long

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• It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Skills, Needs

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• I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Men, Land

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• This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!

  Tom Waits

  Couple, Rain, Coffee

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• God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Faith, Laughing, May

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• He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.

  Michael Chabon

  Ideas, Feels Just, Long

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.420, Random House

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Luck, Suffering

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• Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.

  Gerard Way

  Summer, Black, Phantoms

  "Song: "Welcome to the Black Parade"". 2006.

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• Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

  Truman Capote

  Dream, Reading, Home

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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• Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.

  Tim Winton

  Running, Sweet, Block

  Tim Winton (2014). “Cloudstreet: Picador Classic”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Escaping, Cities, Rivers

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• I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Mean, Hair

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Individuality, Mystery

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• One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

  John Steinbeck

  Cards, Tables, Neat

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.228, Penguin

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• Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

  Atul Gawande

  Practice, Way, Conscious

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.21, Profile Books

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• Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person...Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon...But as the sand's Kazekage.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Pain, Hate, Sadness

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?

  Hans Scholl

  Children, Eye, Light

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• One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Moving, Dust, Cities

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