Morning Quotes - Page 39

• I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

  Vladimir Putin

  Night, Eight, Years

  "The Truth About Putin and Medvedev" by Amy Knight, www.nybooks.com. May 15, 2008.

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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Men, Land

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies". www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Mean, Simple

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, Memories, Dad

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• Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Lasts, Firsts, Every Morning

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• I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Book, Night

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Out of Africa”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

  Laura Nyro

  Jesus, Believe, Book

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• Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.

  George Darley

  Eye, Sun, Thee

  George Darley (1827). “Sylvia; or, The May queen, a lyrical drama”, p.111

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• I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

  Milton Resnick

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

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• Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Leadership, Next, Clock

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• Astonish me in the morning!

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Renewal

  Tyrone Guthrie (2008). “A New Theatre”, p.7, U of Minnesota Press

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• Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

  John Banville

  Light, Tree, Veins

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• Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

  Roberto Bolano

  Dream, Light, Thee

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• Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

  Kevin Leman

  Baby, Love Is, Feelings

  Kevin Leman (1987). “Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits”

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• It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away." Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.

  Phil Plait

  Math, Moon, Keys

  "A Marvelous Night for a (Saturn) Moon Dance". blogs.discovermagazine.com. February 10, 2010.

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• I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

  Julia Hill

  Earth Day, Wake Up, Asking

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• Aiki is the way of the Kami and was born of the will of the Kami. Rise early in the morning to greet the sun. Inhale the breath of heaven and let the cosmos inside. Next breath up the rich vibrance of the earth. Blend these breaths with your own breath and become the breath of life itself. Your mind and body will be gladdened, heartache and disappointment will dissipate and you will be filled with gratitude. The movements of Aikido which unite human being with great nature are all given by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. Aikido is Misogi..a purification of ourselves...the way of the universe.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Heartache

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• Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

  Stan Lee

  Jobs, Writing, Down And

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• I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life

  Bonnie Tyler

  Strong, Hero, Fighting

  Song: Holding Out For A Hero

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• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.

  Jack Valenti

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.168, Crown Archetype

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• Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Beach, Heart

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed.

  Pat Condell

  Jesus, Sunday, Men

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"In Jesus' Name", www.youtube.com. April 25, 2007.

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• The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

  Derek Tangye

  Sadness, Years, Wake Up

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Night, Feet, Rose

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