O Quotes
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“One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on Fox News.”
“One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.”
“One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.”
“One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.”
“One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.”
“One day your child will make a mistake or a bad choice and run to you instead of away from you and in that moment you will know the immense value of peaceful, positive, respectful parenting.”
“One day Your dog is going to safe your life, that's a fact.”
“One day your heart will take you to your Lover.
One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your
pain will become your cure.”
“One day your lies will strangle you, King Maven. My only regret is I won't be alive to see it.”
Source: Red Queen
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching”
“One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.”
“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”
“One day" came. Because finally I understood.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at her with their enormous dark liquid eyes, and believed every word.”
Source: Deerskin
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.”
“One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.”
“One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.”
“One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.”
“One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.”
“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.”
“One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever."”
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.”
“One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.”
“One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.”
Source: Cousin Betty
“One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.”
Source: Love: a novel
“One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend. Then the firms that have expanded cannot get credit to pay for the factors of production necessary for the completion of the investment projects which they have already committed themselves. Because they cannot pay their bills, they sell off their inventories cheap. Then comes the panic, the breakdown. And the depression starts.”
“One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.”
“One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.”
“One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.”
“One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.”
“One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.”
“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.”
“One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears – my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace.”
“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
“One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.”
“One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.”
“One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.”
“One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.”
“One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.”
“One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.”
“One day, I'll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.”
“One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud
“One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.”
“One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.”
“One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition