Fine Day Quotes

• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

  Jane Austen

  Nature, Flower, Perfect

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.85

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• One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

  David Mitchell

  World, Fine, Predatory

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• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  William Shenstone

  People, Envy, Reason

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.141

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• One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Doe, April

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

  Marc Chagall

  Mother, Elbows, Want

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• One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

  Trevor Nunn

  Play, Fine, Complexes

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• Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Faith, Rip, Inspiration

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• The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fog, Weather, Connections

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Beautiful, Strong, Coffee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.

  Karen Armstrong

  Queens, Children, War

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Crowds, Revolution

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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• But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Age, Care, Forests

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1998). “North and South”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.

  Judith McNaught

  Your Side, Feet, Twelve

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• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Spring, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Walking Away, Ice

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• The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Exercise, Men

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• See, the first thing about actors is, you're just trying to get a job; and you audition and audition and you finally get them. And you still consider yourself an auditioning actor. I auditioned for One Fine Day, I wasn't offered that. So you're still in that 'Hey, I'm just trying to get a job' thing. Then, you get to the point where, if you decide to do it, then they'll make the film. That's a different kind of responsibility, and it usually takes a couple of films to catch up. And then you have to actually pay attention to the kind of films that you're making.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Couple, Responsibility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

  Fanny Kemble

  Death, Horse, Would Be

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21

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• How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

  Yip Harburg

  Fine

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