Day To Day Quotes - Page 23

• Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Justice, Civil Rights

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Grief, Loss, Self

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

  Peter Gabriel

  Life, Wine, Cutting

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• It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God - their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Thinking

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• The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Focus, Gone

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.

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• We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us. Hopefully, people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis.

  Brady Quinn

  Phones, People, Trying

  "Early Lead Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Air, Grace

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• Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Animal, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.210, Penguin Books India

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• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Ethics, Virtue

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

  Rollo May

  Life, People, Decision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

  Confucius

  Love, Learning, May

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• The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

  Robert Grudin

  Future, People, Vision

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ambition, Order, Differences

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• The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Honesty, Kindness, Heart

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• She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Thinking, Years, People

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• We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Sorry, Years, Gone

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

  James Boswell

  Book, Way, Chance

  James Boswell (2015). “Life of Johnson: Top Biography”, p.1727, 谷月社

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• Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Wall, Heart, Civilization

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Ordinary Days, Long, Missing

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.31, Melville House

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• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Littles

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• When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.

  Leslie Ludy

  Christian, Inspiration, People

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• The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

  John Darnielle

  Philosophical, Kids, Reality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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