Day Quotes

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"You can't fatten the pig on market day"

John Howard, Statesman

"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"I think about my work every minute of the day"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time"

Obie Trice, Musician

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

Anna Faris, Actress

"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground"

Ralph Marston, Writer

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

Virgil, Writer

"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

"May you live all the days of your life"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"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

"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

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

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

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