Every Morning Quotes - Page 15

• I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

  David Sedaris

  Morning, Writing, Winning

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Interview, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Morning, Mind, Tasks

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• Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Grandmother, Punishment

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• Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Morning, School, Hands

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• And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

  John Green

  Morning, Weekend, Night

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dream, Morning, Wake Up

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Morning, Men, Toads

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• He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Party, Sleep

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.75, Emblem Editions

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• If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.

  Julie James

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

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• Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.

  Lydia Davis

  Running, Morning, Taken

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• I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Morning, Stars, Moving

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• I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Snakes

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, People, Want

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• Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Morning, Fun, Hate

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• I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

  Tim Tebow

  Morning, Grace, Trying

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• Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Liberty, Pants

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

  Life, Morning, Inspiration

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• To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Morning, Yoga, Dancing

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• This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Morning, Heart, Calling

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.49, Bottom of the Hill

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• It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, Queens, Believe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.69, Convergent Books

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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Morning, Sunshine, Evil

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• Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey...and there's so much we have yet to do.' He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. 'Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.' 'Dodger?' she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned. 'No, your confounded ferret will have to stay in his basket. I was referring to myself.' 'Yes, I know.' Catherine slid her hand up to his cheek. 'Only you,' she said. 'Always you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Morning, Love You

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• What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Typewriters, Noon

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