O Quotes
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“One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.”
“One day or day one. You decide.”
“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God”
Source: The Aleph and Other Stories
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.”
“One day, our souls will meet on the other side, my friend.
But until then, I'll keep you on my thoughts to the very end.”
“One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings
“One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You'll see. One day, this will be a magical place again. With music and dance and good times and people celebrating.”
“One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.”
“One day, people will speak of Carson Anekeya and say: here lies a great writer and mental health advocate undone by relentless migraines, countless depressive episodes, suicidal ideations and finally defeated by the long hard struggle to stay alive...”
“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”
Source: Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems
“One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.”
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.”
“One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“One day, progress being what it was, I hoped no one would have to have a big gay coming-out or a bisexual coming-out. It would just be what it was, and that would be that. But we weren't quite there yet.”
“One day, Puck, you'll see, that something you've started will get away from you; all your shits and giggles will turn to death and destruction -- and there's nothing you can do about it.”
“One day, Remy came across a proposal from Lithgow for a budget increase to re-equip an archer company with newly invented crossbows. Remy modified the requested budget amount by adding two zeroes to it and sent the proposal into Jerado for approval.
The sounds of Jerado’s wooden dentures clattering across the desk was most satisfying to Remy. Soon after, Jerado sent Lithgow a strongly worded notice to leave the archers alone.”
Source: The King Who Disappeared
“One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.”
“One day's rain can erase the barren traces of a country. it is like repentance that can cleanse all human sins.”
“One day, sadly not so long from now, you will find yourself looking back with either great pride or grand penitence. Life is short. BELONG.”
Source: FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized
“One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.”
“One day, scientists will overtake LIGHT and crash into the DARKNESS.”
“One day,
she gave up on him
but, that's not the
saddest part though,
the saddest part
of the story is that
he never cared enough
to look back for once
- too much to handle”
Source: ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS
“One day, she'll realize that the world we live in doesn't matter. We're the only one who do.”
Source: Consumed by Deception
“One day she received the mug and a shirt that had that famous Eleanor Roosevelt quote on it ('One day we will destroy the moon with indifference!')”
Source: Welcome to Night Vale
“One day, she told me her favorite color was green. Do you know how much green I see in a day? Enough to remember any other color ain’t her favorite. Green. That’s a whole lifetime with a girl whose face emerges on leaves, tennis courts, the billboard on every nearest passion pit, the emerald fabric of my curtains, hotel salads, on a crumpled Washington, and the two forest eyes of my own that look back at me in the mirror and say, “Diana #1, Diana #2.” Ain’t that a bite. One day, I will lay outside to daydream about her for so long, fungi will grow on my pathetic body, plaguing me with her favorite color. Will she love my algae then?”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.”
Source: Where She Went
“One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.”
Source: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”
Source: We Were Liars
“One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could.”
Source: Reverie Girl
“One day she woke up hating life, how dismal and anxious and unhappy the many long years had been. In that awful moment, a choice was made. Not to give up, no, never would she give away whatever small portion of power God had granted her. Instead, she reached deep down inside herself and gathered enough magic to paint a huge smile on the world. It was a bold and daring use of her powers. She has refused to see anything else ever since.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“One day Sid turns up in the peg trousers and they're in ribbons. He'd sliced them up with a razor blade because he hated them so much but he couldn't find his jeans so when he wanted to go out he had to stick them back together. He joined the rips with loads of safety pins, all the way down his legs, hundreds of them. That’s how the ‘loads of safety pins’ thing started amongst people in clubs: they copied it, but he only did it because he couldn’t be bothered to sew his trousers up.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.”
Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
“One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.”
“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”
“One day somebody asked Herr K. if there was a God. Herr K. replied: "I suggest that you ask yourself whether the answer would effect your behavior. If your behavior would remain unchanged, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of assistance to you by telling you that you have already decided: you need a God.”
Source: Stories of Mr. Keuner
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“One day
someone
will come along
and whisper
"You're worth the fear
of a broken heart"
and you will
never
let her
regret it.”
“One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!”
“One day,someone will have more anger then fear, and they will come, and they will kill him- and on the day, I will light a candle for the loss of a friend who could have been, and then I will celebrate the death of the monster that was.”
Source: When Villains Rise
“One day, someone will say “I love you” and you will hear “family”. That is a love worth surrendering to.”
“One day soon, she'd have to leave the beach behind and go and find her real life, out in the rest of the world. The beach would shrink and fade and become part of her discarded childhood. Sometimes she almost wishes her father had never brought them here to live. Why show her what it was like to live in Paradise when her only choice was to leave again?”
Source: The Beach Hut
“One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet”
“One day, soon, the oddness of the seemingly universal belief of human in other animals’ slavery will be palpable. Then, we will be worthier of sharing this planet with them because we will have discovered our souls.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.”
“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”
“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?”