Sunday Quotes - Page 20

• When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Stars, Sea, Goes On

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

  Harry Graham

  School, Long, Rewards

  Harry Graham (2016). “Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Morning, Block, Two

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Midnight, Laundry, Folding

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• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  Ted Nugent

  Art, Real, Glasses

  "Vegans, Keep Out: It's Hunting Season". Interview with Danny Hakim, The New York Times, September 27, 2005.

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• People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Clothes, People, Weekdays

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1720, Random House

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• Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!

  Celia Rivenbark

  Home, Doors, Talking

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• Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.

  Gary Pruitt

  Weekend, California, Impact

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• I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.

  Wade Guyton

  Art, Father, Kids

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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, Morning, Men

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

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• My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.

  Cherie Blair

  Home, Son, Mail

  "'Maybe I should have asked more questions'". The Times, December 11, 2002.

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• Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

  Alan Hirsch

  Imagination, Church, Building

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.175, Baker Books

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• The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

  Kerry Collins

  Past, Play, Preparation

  "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• The Oscars are this Sunday. Host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes the broadcast will include a 'Kanye moment.' Unfortunately a Kanye moment may not be possible because that would require a black person to be at the Oscars.

  Conan O'Brien

  Black, May, Oscars

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• The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

  David Letterman

  Art, Awards, White

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• Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

  David Letterman

  Awards, Actors, Ruth

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• The Dudleys are going to get the VIP treatment this Sunday-- Very Intense Pain!

  Jerry Lawler

  Pain, Vip, Intense

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• This Tony Haywire guy, whatever his name is, he told the BBC on Sunday that he believes the new oil cap that they've installed will eventually capture the vast majority of oil spewing from the well. You know, if they could capture half the BS spewing from Tony Hayward, people would be thrilled.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Names, Oil

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• Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

  Calvin Miller

  Friday, Morning, Clothes

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.87, InterVarsity Press

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• I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

  Tom Lehman

  Groups, Way, Lasts

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• If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Should Have, People, Doubt

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• To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

  Olive Schreiner

  Prayer, Loss, Reality

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• We are called upon to obey and follow our Lord the Christ, but it is not because of any fear of Him or of the consequences if we did not follow; it is the love of Christ which constraineth us, as we are told in the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lend. It is because of our love and gratitude to Him that we must follow Him, that we must strain every nerve to make ourselves like Him. That is our reason--not fear but love.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Gratitude, Nerves, Our Love

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• Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, School, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

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