Quotes about day
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Maimónides photo
Alain de Botton photo
Omar Khayyám photo

“As under cover of departing Day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away,
Once more within the Potter's house alone
I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.”

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

Luis de Góngora photo

“The hours will hardly forgive you, those hours that are wearing away the days, those days that are gnawing away the years.”

Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) Spanish Baroque lyric poet

Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas;
las horas que limando están los días,
los días que royendo están los años.
"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.

Russell Brand photo
Christopher Hitchens photo

“And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

[Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, 2004, 1560255803, 2005298401, 56991027, 24964445M]
2000s, 2004

Brigham Young photo
Stafford Cripps photo
Jayant Narlikar photo
George Holyoake photo

“Mr. Owen looked upon men through the spectacles of his own good-nature. He seldom took Lord Brougham's advice "to pick his men." He never acted on the maxim that the working class are as jealous of each other as the upper classes are of them. The resolution he displayed as a manufacturer he was wanting in as a founder of communities…. No leader ever took so little care as Mr, Owen in guarding his own reputation. He scarcely protested when others attached his name to schemes which were not his. The failure of Queenwood was not chargeable to him. When his advice was not followed he would say : "Well, gentlemen, I tell you what you ought to do. You differ from me. Carry out your own plans. Experience will show you who is right." When the affair went wrong then it was ascribed to him. Whatever failed under his name the public inferred failed through him. Mr. Owen was a general who never provided himself with a rear guard. While he was fighting in the front ranks priests might come up and cut off his commissariat. His own troops fell into pits against which he had warned them. Yet he would write his next dispatch without it occurring to him to mention his own defeat, and he would return to his camp without missing his army. Yet society is not so well served that it need hesitate to forgive the omissions of its generous friends. To Mr. Owen will be accorded the distinction of being a philosopher who devoted himself to founding a Science of Social Improvement and a philanthropist who gave his fortune to advance it. Association, which was but casual before his day, he converted into a policy and taught it as an art. He substituted Co-operation for coercion in the conduct ot industry and the willing co-operation of intelligence certain of its own reward, for sullen labour enforced by the necessity of subsistence, seldom to be relied on and never satisfied.”

George Holyoake (1817–1906) British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor

George Jacob Holyoake in The History of Co-operation in England (1875; 1902).

Arthur James Balfour photo

“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”

Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman

Speech (7 May 1926), reported in The Observer (14 November 1926), quoted in Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (2003)

/ Lord President of the Council

Alan M. Dershowitz photo
Silas Weir Mitchell photo

“When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.”

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) American physician

On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).

Ray Bradbury photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Whatever we experience in our day, whatever we hope to learn, whatever we most desire, whatever we set out to find, we see that the Greeks have been there before us, and we meet them on their way back.”

Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer

Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

Christopher Hitchens photo
Boris Johnson photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Yelena Bonner photo

“It cost Andrei Dmitrievich 10 months of complete isolation and two hunger strikes over two months, which had a terrible effect on his health. The effects are still felt to this day.”

Yelena Bonner (1923–2011) human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Of the effort to get her to the USA for an operation. Washington Post November 16, 1989 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1223343.html

Henrietta Swan Leavitt photo

“It is worthy of notice that in Table VI the brighter variables have the longer periods. It is also noticeable that those having the longest periods appear to be as regular in their variations as those which pass through their changes in a day or two.”

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) astronomer

"1777 Variables in the Magellanic Clouds" http://books.google.com/books?id=UkdWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 (1908) Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College Vol.60. No.4

Nassim Nicholas Taleb photo

“Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.”

John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States

Travis McGee series, (1966)

“Allah gave the Qur’an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.”

Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician

"Muhammad?"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)

Francis de Sales photo
William Watson (poet) photo

“On from room to room I stray,
Yet mine Host can ne’er espy,
And I know not to this day,
Whether guest or captive I.”

William Watson (poet) (1858–1935) English poet, born 1858

World-Strangeness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Francine Prose photo
Verghese Kurien photo
George William Curtis photo

“Pooh! Pooh! Nonsense!' was the reply, 'that's all very well in theory, but it doesn't work so. The returning of slaves amounts to nothing in fact. All that is obsolete. And why make all this row? Can't you hush? We've nothing to do with slavery, we tell you. We can't touch it; and if you persist in this agitation about a mere form and theory, why, you're a set of pestilent fanatics and traitors; and if you get your noisy heads broken, you get just what you deserve'. And they quoted in the faces of the abolitionists the words of Governor Edward Everett, who was not an authority with them, in that fatal inaugural address, 'The patriotism of all classes of citizens must be invited to abstain from a discussion which, by exasperating the master, can have no other effect than to render more oppressive the condition of the slave'. It was as if some kindly Pharisee had said to Christ, 'Don't try to cast out that evil spirit; it may rend the body on departing'. Was it not as if some timid citizen had said, 'Don't say hard things of intemperance lest the dram-shops, to spite us, should give away the rum'? And so the battle raged. The abolitionists dashed against slavery with passionate eloquence like a hail of hissing fire. They lashed its supporters with the scorpion whip of their invective. Ambition, reputation, ortune, ease, life itself they threw upon the consuming altar of their cause. Not since those earlier fanatics of freedom, Patrick Henry and James Otis, has the master chord of human nature, the love of liberty, been struck with such resounding power. It seemed in vain, so slowly their numbers increased, so totally were they outlawed from social and political and ecclesiastical recognition. The merchants of Boston mobbed an editor for virtually repeating the Declaration of Independence. The city of New York looked on and smiled while the present United States marshal insulted a woman as noble and womanly and humane as Florence Nightingale. In other free States men were flying for their lives; were mobbed, seized, imprisoned, maimed, murdered; but still as, in the bitter days of Puritan persecution in Scotland, the undaunted voices of the Covenanters were heard singing the solemn songs of God that echoed and re-echoed from peak to peak of the barren mountains, until the great dumb wilderness was vocal with praise — so in little towns and great cities were heard the uncompromising voices of these men sternly intoning the majestic words of the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, which echoed from solitary heart to heart until the whole land rang with the litany of liberty.”

George William Curtis (1824–1892) American writer

1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)

Anthony Burgess photo

“There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection….”

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer

Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

Bill Hybels photo
Franklin D. Roosevelt photo
James Mattis photo
Joe Trohman photo
Donald Barthelme photo
Jay-Z photo
Philip Sidney photo
Georgia O'Keeffe photo
Dorothy Day photo
Horace Mann photo

“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”

Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician

Edmund Burke, as quoted in Lacon in Council (1865) by John Frederick Boyes, p. 124
Misattributed

William Morris photo
Pope Benedict XVI photo

“How many questions arise in this place! Constantly the question comes up: Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil? … We must continue to cry out humbly yet insistently to God: Rouse yourself! Do not forget mankind, your creature!”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

On visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 28, 2006. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, in the article: “Why, Lord, Did You Remain Silent?”, (15 May 2007)
2007

Alan Dzagoev photo

“I was so glad to get my first boots that for a few days I didn't take them off. I wore them to school, to visit people, and simply to walk on the street.”

Alan Dzagoev (1990) Russian association football player

2008, http://www.sports.ru/football/5845060.html

Robert Rauschenberg photo
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce photo
John Dryden photo

“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”

Pt. I, line 271.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad photo
Arthur Quiller-Couch photo

“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) British writer and literary critic

Poem Ode upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon, in Poems and Ballads, 1896

Phil Brown (footballer) photo

“It was a fantastic result and credit has to go to the players. The application they have shown since I got the job has been first class. They've just asked for four or five days off this week, but I've said I want them back in on Tuesday.”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

30-Apr-2007, Hull City OWS
When the players ask for a holiday, that shows their hard-working attitude!

Lee Kuan Yew photo
Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo
Bob Dylan photo

“I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 147

Roger Manganelli photo
Nicolae Ceaușescu photo

“Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.”

Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

Source: Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, p. 25

Ward Churchill photo
Richard Leakey photo
Neil Gaiman photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
James Branch Cabell photo
Mata Amritanandamayi photo
Gustavo Gutiérrez photo

“The Church cannot be a prophet in our day if she herself is not turned to Christ.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation - 15th Anniversary Edition, Chapter Seven, The Church In the Process of Liberation, p. 70

Victor Villaseñor photo
Derren Brown photo
Donald J. Trump photo
Charles de Gaulle photo

“I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.”

Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic

Je ne vais pas mal. Mais rassurez-vous, un jour, je ne manquerai pas de mourir.
Press conference, February 1965, denying rumours that he secretly had a terminal disease
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2

Clarence Thomas photo
Pierre Monteux photo

“Told, during the days of segregation in the US, that he couldn't be served as he was trying to take breakfast at a restaurant "for colored folk", he insisted: "But we are colored, my dear. We are pink."”

Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor

From Monteux, Fifi (1962). Everyone is Someone. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. OCLC 602036672, pp. 13–15

Anacreon photo

“To-day belongs to me,
To-morrow who can tell.”

Anacreon (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns

Odes, VIII. (VIL), 9.

Brigham Young photo
Roderick Long photo
Alexander Pope photo
Condoleezza Rice photo

“We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.”

Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist

Interview on Fox News Sunday http://web.archive.org/web/20060607112722/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/67502.htm, June 4, 2006.

The Mother photo
Brigham Young photo

“I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.”

Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader

Deseret News: Semi-Weekly, 1 (30 June 1874)
1870s

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away”

Arthur Ransome (1884–1967) English author and journalist

Pigeon Post Title page and Chapter 4), 1936

Dwight D. Eisenhower photo

“From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city, every village, and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Signing into law the phrase "One nation under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9920 (14 June 1954)
1950s

John Constable photo
Giorgio Morandi photo

“Let us hope that these dark days [Summer in 1943 when Morandi took refuge from the war in Grizanna where he remained on his own for a year] will be followed by better ones. I work, but these continual worries are extremely tiring, believe me. I should like to see you again..”

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter

in a letter to his friend Roberto Longhi (1943); as quoted in 'Morandi 1894 – 1964', published by Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco - 2008; p. 198
1925 - 1945

Kofi Annan photo

“The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.”

Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Awake! magazine, May 22, 2002; Can Globalization Really Solve Our Problems?

Luísa Sobral photo

“If one day someone asks about me
Tell them I lived to love you.
Before you, I only existed
Tired and with nothing to give.”

Luísa Sobral (1987) Portuguese singer and songwriter

Se um dia alguém perguntar por mim
Diz que vivi para te amar.
Antes de ti, só existi
Cansado e sem nada para dar.
"Amar pelos dois" (2017) · Grand Finale performance with her brother after his win of the Eurovision contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXodL-oQGws

Stanley Baldwin photo
Orson Scott Card photo

“May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

Sarah Palin photo

“What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it.”

Sarah Palin (1964) American politician

Television interview http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml with Katie Couric, CBS Evening News ()
Posed question: But polls have shown that Sen. Obama has actually gotten a boost as a result of this latest crisis, with more people feeling that he can handle the situation better than John McCain.
2008, 2008 interviews with Katie Couric

Tom Petty photo

“And it's hard to say
Who you are these days.
But you run on anyway,
Don't you baby?”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Saving Grace
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)

Mike Oldfield photo
Vyjayanthimala photo
Ben Croshaw photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Andreas Heldal-Lund photo
Frank McCourt photo
George Grosz photo

“Day after day gasped away, slowly seep hours when fettered or immured, only at times does imagination scale the palisades that the spirit of chaos and confusion, the spirit of reactionary bombast, has set up around us - dreams, dreams of endless, destructive hate! Mists of hate, beclouding the burning brain!”

George Grosz (1893–1959) German artist

Letter to Otto Schmalhausen, 4 April, 1917 (Briefe, p. 49); as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 89 - note 62
George Grosz was early January 1917 recalled into the German army, only to be transferred shortly afterward to Gorden mental hospital near Brandenburg. From there he wrote this letter. At the end of April 1917 he was sent home, and on 20 May he was discharged on grounds of 'permanent unfitness for duty'

Clement Attlee photo
Samuel Beckett photo
Conor McGregor photo

“I love proving people wrong and proving my supporters right. This is all fun and games to me. I love it. I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I’m grateful every single day.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2014

Isaac Watts photo

“Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.”

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician

Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)