Day Quotes

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead"

Og Mandino, Author

"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right"

Terence, Playwright

"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember"

Virgil, Writer

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"

David Byrne, Musician

"I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left"

Tom Jones, Musician

"I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess"

April Winchell, Actress

"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights"

April Winchell, Actress

"My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out"

April Winchell, Actress

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day"

Joe Baca, Politician

"From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

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