Best one-day & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.”

Years Goal Keys One Day Shapes Marathon Specific Goals

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.”

Knows Years Wells President Successful Land Dying One Day Members News Meetings Addresses Our Society Annuals Live Well Euthanasia Promised Land Dying Well

Author:Victor Lewis-Smith

“You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—”

People Years My Own Flower Amount One Day Ordinary Years Ago Decided I Realized Bees Own Business Spelling Part Time Adept Bonnets Minding My Own Business

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.”

Writing Years Long Happens Would Be Actors Felt Natural Acting One Day Graves Extensions Daft

Author:Stephen Fry

“It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.”

Years Birth One Day Hundred All Things Contemplation Contemplating Birth And Death Beginnings And Endings

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.”

Years Play Remember Actors Waiting Saws One Day Leaving Theatre Peter Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.”

Years Made Next Existence Minutes Awareness One Day Curiosity Impossibility One Minute

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”

Years Long Real Courses Father Felt Cry One Day Late Sick Twenties Finals Guilty Broke Funeral Late Twenties

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”

Years Firsts Persons Religion Found Lost Hell Atheism One Day Prove First Time Strikes Flesh Satan Paradise Secular Forbidden Sandwiches Ham Swine Thunderbolts

Author:Salman Rushdie

“This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.”

Years Two Nations Revolution Mets One Day Hundred Years Ago Congress American Revolution Continental Lancaster

Author:Dan Quayle

“The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature.”

Writing Years Art Done Interest Saws Style Example Possibility Youth One Day Photograph Boring Repetition Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Joseph Beuys

“A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.”

Giving Years Said Desire Left Waiting Teach Ready Masters Return One Day Disciple Request Eagerness Zealous

Author:Anthony de Mello

“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.”

Ifs Years Littles Said Stills War Done Stories Five Four Wife Type Couple One Day Pages Humorous Army My Wife Finished Five Years If I Could Short Story Operators

Author:Carl Reiner

“I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.”

Years One Day Stores Groceries Grocery Stores

Author:Megan Mullally

“There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”

Years Book Light Age Purpose Lord Mines Duty One Day Remains Tales Like Me Dust Witness Sinner Educate Fulfilled Lamps Monk Shaking Light Up Chronicles Concluding

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Years Home Left Painting One Day Husband Moved Credit Deception California Hawaii

Author:Margaret Keane

“Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.”

Years Shows Beautiful Felt One Day Travel Ships Timeless Vertigo

Author:Wanda Koop

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?”

Years Heart Might Turns Chance Walks Trouble One Day Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Convenient Heart Attack

Author:Garth Nix

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer

“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.”

Source: Democracy in America

“In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.”

Years Has Beens Literature Hours Alive Months One Day Threat One Hour

Author:Frederick Forsyth

“Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.”

Years Wells Used Next One Day Baseball Riches Rags Rags To Riches

Author:Casey Stengel

“Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.”

Giving Years Sometimes Home Differences One Day Ten

Author:Anatole France

“A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.”

Men Years Looks Persons Seems One Day Warning

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.”

“When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this is having an idea and seeing it come to fruition on screen. I would like to direct someone else's script one day, but I might not get round to it before I die - you can't legislate for being hit by a bus!”

Years Ideas Might Dies My Own Seeing Easier One Day Direct Rounds Scripts Bus Fruition Before I Die

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.”

Men Years Looks Littles Made Stills Moments Age Hours Wonder One Day Heels Worn Creeps Small Parts Little Moments

Book:The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

“I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.”

Ifs Years Made Waiting Journey Hair Goes On One Day Letters Busy Starting Grass Gray Mailboxes

Author:Alice Munro

“Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.”

Source: Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland

“One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?”

Years Suffering Conditions Buddhism One Day Liberation Immortality Reflecting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm anti-Valentine's Day. I don't believe - and this goes for anybody - your man shouldn't love you for one day out of 365. He should love you 365 days out of the year. I want Valentine's Day every day.”

Men Want Should Years Believe Love You One Day Don't Believe Valentine Valentine's Day Anti Valentine

Author:Carrie Underwood

“At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.”

People Thinking Years Children Ends One Day My Children Accomplished The End Of The Day Printed Tabloids

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.”

Knows Years One Day Dramatic Smoking Cigarette Stopping Alignment

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.”

Years Believe I Believe Missing One Day Essence Independence Everyday Celebrate Holiday Independence Day Days Of The Year

Author:Arin Paul

“My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.”

Years Team Football One Day Football Team Sophomore Sophomore Year Tryouts

Author:Mo Rocca

“I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.”

Men Want Years Looks Stories Light Universe Roles Four Son Dad One Day Diversity Skins Excited Hopefully Shock Iron My Son Four Years Look At Me Costumes Superhero Spiders Spider Man Iron Man

Author:Djimon Hounsou

“I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor”

Years Firsts Hands Remember Stars Walks Happened Feet Mines Honor One Day Fame Moved Print Remember When Surreal Michigan Hands And Feet

Author:Taylor Lautner

“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”

World Years Dad One Day My Dad Around The World Someday Sail

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.”

Years Politics Walks Four Air One Day Breathe Voting Four Years

Author:Unita Blackwell

“[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!”

Years Looks Courses Waiting Growth Poor Tree Politician One Day Ten Vote Wake Up Newspapers Spectacular Suffrage Meteors Slow Growth

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.”

Years Long Next Differences Five Four Cutting College One Day Majors Complaining Five Years

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.”

Years Stories Remember Doors One Day Cells Prisoner Locked Confined Dungeons

Author:Winston Churchill

“I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.”

World Years Looks Seems Eye Couple Civilization One Day Hundred Built Years Ago Checks Hotel Our Society Customs Temporary Concrete Apocalypse

Book:Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it

Source: Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it

“People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.”

People Years Can Do One Day Equal Let Me Wounds Heal Right Thing Wrong Things Time Heals Time Heals All Time Heals All Wounds

Author:Phil McGraw

“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.”

Years Said God Use Lasts Five Pieces One Day Paper Years Ago Machines Stupidity Copies Blank Secretary Typing Copiers

Author:Dave Barry

“I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.”

“One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.”

Trying Years One Day Suicide Scary Commit Teenager Hospitals Scary Things Really Scary

Author:Pattie Mallette

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