Day To Day Quotes - Page 24

• "The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Years, Civilization

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• Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Self, Soul, Steel

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Over You, Littles, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2006). “50 Poemas”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento

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• The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

  B. F. Skinner

  Father, Responsibility, People

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• Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

  Arthur Golden

  Party, Struggle, Destiny

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.294, Random House

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• For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Gay, Decision

  "Proposition 8, California's ban on gay marriage, overturned by judge" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2010.

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• My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Travel, Patient, Problem

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.112, A&C Black

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• He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Writing, Poetry

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

  David Mitchell

  Lucky, Beats, Chanting

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• I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

  John Connolly

  Reading, Thinking, Views

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Retirement, Business

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• It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

  Alain de Botton

  Important, Benefits, Helping

  Alain de Botton (2010). “A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary”, p.32, Profile Books

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• Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

  Vikram Seth

  Blessed, Grieving, Soul

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• The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Giving, Miracle

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• Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

  David Levithan

  Trying, Honestly

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, People, Confusion

  Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah

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• She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

  Paulo Coelho

  Frustration, Nothing To Lose, Constant

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• Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

  Robin Hobb

  Opposites, Choices, Speak

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.183, Spectra

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

  Horace

  Life, Past, Men

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• I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Way, Impossible

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• That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Heart, Squinting, Wish

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• Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

  Virginia Woolf

  Hot, Way, Sun

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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