Quotes about day
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Alastair Reynolds photo
Jacopone da Todi photo
Peter Kropotkin photo

“Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.”

Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…

Here Kropotkin seems to be refering to the French philosopher Charles Fourier, and not the French scientist Joseph Fourier.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

“These days people like Yi are more likely to end up in the Blue House or KBS than in jail.”

Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies

2010s, League Confederation Goes Outer-Track (September 2018)

Z-Ro photo

“If I see a jacker comin' my way, I load my AK,
Don't think I won't spray, it'll be yo last day.”

Z-Ro (1977) American rapperdoj

One Two.
Song lyrics, Cocaine (2009)

Stanley Baldwin photo
Robert Musil photo
Douglas William Jerrold photo

“That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.”

Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer

A comic Author, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Garth Nix photo

“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?”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 231.

Larry Wall photo

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[199709242015.NAA10312@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Alessandro Pavolini photo

“All those traitors who were morally against fascism during the shameful forty-five days following July 25 must inexorably be wiped out.”

Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) Italian politician and writer

Quoted in "Mussolini Orders Arrest Of Critics" - "New York Times" article - October 8, 1943.

Rousas John Rushdoony photo

“I slipped out in the bathroom of a Parisian hotel and hit my head. I was in coma for about three days, and when I woke up, one half of my body was paralyzed.”

Donald O'Brien (actor) (1930–2003) Italian film and TV actor

Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

Ezra Pound photo
Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Nicolas Chamfort photo

“There is something is common between literary, and above all theatrical, reputations and the fortunes which used of old to be made in the West Indies. In the early days it was almost sufficient to reach those islands to return with incalculable riches; but the very vastness of the fortunes thus obtained was prejudicial to those of the following generation, since the exhausted earth could yield no more.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

Il en est un peu des réputations littéraires, et surtout des réputations de théâtre, comme des fortunes qu'on faisait autrefois dans les Iles. Il suffisait presque autrefois d'y passer, pour parvenir à une grande richesse, mais ces grandes fortunes mêmes ont nui à celles de la génération suivante: les terres épuisées n'ont plus rendu si abondamment.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #442
Maxims and Considerations, #442

T.S. Eliot photo
Salman Rushdie photo
James K. Galbraith photo
Amir Taheri photo
Elie Wiesel photo
Wallace Stevens photo

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Journal entry (20 April 1920); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 6

Calvin Coolidge photo
Mike Pence photo

“Police officers are the best of us. Men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic – they put their lives on the line every single day.”

Mike Pence (1959) 48th Vice President of the United States

Vice presidential debate (October 4, 2016)
Vice presidential debate (October 4, 2016)

John F. Kennedy photo

“I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Speech at Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland (29 June 1963)
1963

Helen Keller photo
Vin Scully photo
Alexander Pope photo

“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

"A Farewell to London" (1715), st. 1.

John Calvin photo

“Tomorrow is waiting to reveal itself depending on the actions of just one day… TODAY!”

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124

Philip Kotler photo

“The good news is that marketing takes a day to learn. The bad news is that it takes a lifetime to master!”

Philip Kotler (1931) American marketing author, consultant and professor

Source: Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know, 2011, p. xiv

Lois McMaster Bujold photo
Marie Bilders-van Bosse photo

“In the afternoon he [ Johannes Bosboom ] took me to look for it [her first showed painting, ever]. There it was! I thought I was swimming! And next day, our lounge was full of people [at home, with her father], a friend of dad came in and he said: 'I have seen your painting. Very well, indeed. Do you know it just has been sold?' Suddenly it fell silent in the room. Daddy looked at me with surprised eyes. It was my declaration of independence.”

Marie Bilders-van Bosse (1837–1900) painter from the Netherlands

translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in Nederlands): 's Middags nam hij [ nl:Johannes Bosboom ] me mee, om ernaar te gaan kijken [haar eerst-getoonde schilderij]. Daar hing het! Ik dacht dat ik zwom! En den volgenden dag, de salon was bij ons [thuis bij haar vader] vol menschen, komt een vriend van papa binnen en zegt: 'Ik heb je schilderij gezien. Heel goed. Weet je dat het verkocht is?' Het was ineens stil in de kamer. Pappa keek me met een paar verbaasde ogen aan. Het was mijn onafhankelijkheidsverklaring.
Quote of Marie Bilders-van Bosse, c. Jan. 1875; as cited by Dutch writer Augusta de Wit, in 'Marie Philippine Bilders-van Bosse', in artmagazine 'De Gids', 1900, p. 513
Bosboom had organized that one of her early paintings was showed in the shop-window of art-dealer Goupil in The Hague; it became her first sale, to Dr. Blom Coster

George Lippard photo
Robert Charles Wilson photo
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi photo
Sueton photo

“Titus complained of the tax which Vespasian had imposed on the contents of the city urinals. Vespasian handed him a coin which had been part of the first day's proceeds: "Does it smell bad?" he asked. And when Titus said "No" he went on: "Yet it comes from urine."”
Reprehendenti filio Tito, quod etiam urinae vectigal commentus esset, pecuniam ex prima pensione admovit ad nares, sciscitans num odore offenderetur; et illo negante: "Atqui," inquit, "e lotio est."

Sometimes misquoted as Pecunia non olet, "Money doesn't smell".
Source: The Twelve Caesars, Vespasian, Ch. 23

Warren Buffett photo

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239763 "10 Brilliant Quotes From Warren Buffett, America's Second-Richest Person " entrepreneur.com (13 November 2014)
Quotes from the press

Wilhelm Canaris photo

“One day the world will hold the Wehrmacht responsible for these methods since these things are taking place under its nose.”

Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945) German admiral, head of military intelligence service

Alternate version: A day will come when the world will find the Wehrmacht responsible for these methods, inasmuch as the things happen with our tacit consent.
September 1939. Quoted in "Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day‎" - Page 178 - by Anthony Cave Brown - 2007

Mike Huckabee photo
Johan Jongkind photo

“Eight days ago I left Paris and here I am at Honfleur, the place to which I return, as always, with new pleasure. It is a little seaport where there are ten or twenty ships of all nations; not counting the fishing vessels of the same nations. I tell you that this is very interesting for my studies.”

Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism

In a letter, August 1865, describing his visit to Honfleur; as quoted by Moreau-Nélaton, in Jongkind, raconté par lui-même, 1918, p 88
Jongkind visited Honfleur for the third time in his life, in the Summer of 1865 - staying at Isabey's farm at Sainte Adresse

Stafford Cripps photo
Michael Moore photo

“No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing — NOTHING — to do with this!”

Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist

[Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush, MichaelMoore.com, 2 September 2005, http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/vacation-is-over-an-open-letter-from-michael-moore-to-george-w-bush]
2005

Tamsin Greig photo

“It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!”

Tamsin Greig (1966) English actress

About her forthcoming marriage to Richard Leaf (1997).
From the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340067/bio

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

“Few are the beliefs, still fewer the superstitions of to-day. We pretend to account for everything, till we do not believe enough for that humility so essential to moral discipline. But the dark creed of the fatalist still holds its ground — there is that within us, which dares not deny what, in the still depths of the soul, we feel to have a mysterious predominance. To a certain degree we controul our own actions — we have the choice of right or wrong; but the consequences, the fearful consequences, lie not with us. Let any one look upon the most important epochs of his life; how little have they been of his own making — how one slight thing has led on to another, till the result has been the very reverse of our calculations. Our emotions, how little are they under our own controul! how often has the blanched lip, or the flushed cheek, betrayed what the will was strong to conceal! Of all our sensations, love is the one which has most the stamp of Fate. What a mere chance usually leads to our meeting the person destined to alter the whole current of our life. What a mystery even to ourselves the influence which they exercise over us. Why should we feel so differently towards them, to what we ever felt before? An attachment is an epoch in existence — it leads to casting off old ties, that, till then, had seemed our dearest; it begins new duties; often, in a woman especially, changes the whole character; and yet, whether in its beginning, its continuance or its end, love is as little within our power as the wind that passes, of which no man knows whither it goeth or whence it comes.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

No.14. The Bride of Lammermuir — LUCY ASHTON.
Literary Remains

Joanna Newsom photo

“It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.”

Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician

Kingfisher
Have One On Me (2010)

Walter Raleigh photo

“Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust!”

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer

His Own Epitaph, written the night before his execution (1618) and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tnk8RpOFWw "Even Such is Time" — Choir of Salisbury Cathedral

Fred Astaire photo
John Oliver photo

“When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.”

John Oliver (1977) English comedian

Last Week Tonight (8 June 2014)
Last Week Tonight (2014–present)

Brad Paisley photo

“Now you're my whole life;
Now you're my whole world.
I just can't believe
The way I feel about you girl.
Like a river meets the sea,
Stronger than it's ever been.
We've come so far since that day,
And I thought I loved you then.”

Brad Paisley (1972) American country music singer

Then, written by Chris DuBois, Ashley Gorley, and Brad Paisley.
Song lyrics, American Saturday Night (2009)

Charles M. Schulz photo

“A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.”

You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (1985) ISBN 0030056241

Patrick Modiano photo
Ernst Bloch photo
Eric Hobsbawm photo
William James photo
James Joseph Sylvester photo
Maddox photo
Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore photo
Thomas Hardy photo

“That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement Day.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

" Channel Firing http://www.love-poems.me.uk/hardy_channel_firing.htm" (1914), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

Dana Loesch photo
Kage Baker photo

“I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.”

Part 1 “Establishing Shot” Chapter 8 (p. 105)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Bruce Springsteen photo
Boris Johnson photo

“I advise you all very strongly - go for a run, get some exercise, and have a beautiful day.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Valentine Low, "Shiver me timbers Boris", Evening Standard, 15 November 2004, p. 3.
Cornered by reporters asking about his affair after a morning run.
2000s, 2004

William Burges photo
Tom Waits photo
Kazuo Ishiguro photo
John Dear photo
Neil Diamond photo
Susannah Constantine photo

“I worked in Harrods as a sales girl and I was so lazy, I just sat on my arse all day. Now I have huge respect for shop girls. It was boring, so I tried to shoplift things, but we’d always get our bags checked.”

Susannah Constantine (1962) British fashion designer and journalist

As quoted in "Interrogation: Trinny & Susannah" in The Daily Mirror http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/celebsonsunday/interrogation/2007/09/16/interrogation-trinny-susannah-98487-19770870/ (16 September 2007)

Daniel Handler photo
Eusebius of Caesarea photo
Sara Teasdale photo
Owen Lovejoy photo

“I will never degrade my manhood, and stifle the sympathies of human nature. It is an insult to claim it. I wish I had nothing worse to meet at the judgement day than that. I would not have the guilt of causing that wail of man's despair or that wild shriek of woman's agony, as the one or the other is captured, for all the diadems of all the stars in heaven.”

Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) American politician

As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA178 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 178
1850s, The Fanaticism of the Democratic Party (February 1859)

Bob Harper (personal trainer) photo

“I’m a big meditator… I do it every day, twice a day. You turn off your phone, you can put an eye mask on, shut down and you will do much benefit to your body and your mind.”

Bob Harper (personal trainer) (1965) American personal trainer

"'Biggest Loser' host Bob Harper's 5 steps to a healthier new year" https://www.today.com/health/biggest-loser-host-bob-harper-s-health-tips-new-year-t106445, interview with Today (December 27, 2016).

John Burroughs photo
Anil Kumble photo
Francesco Berni photo

“Neither in prose nor verse we aught can say,
But some one said it long before our day.”

Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet

LIX, 1
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato

Ann Druyan photo

“Ah! would but Jupiter restore
The strength I had in days of yore!”

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 294

Colin Wilson photo

“I'm telling you, back in those Wendover days, it wasn't that hard to get it out of me.”

Radio From Hell (August 31, 2006)

Leonard Nimoy photo

“I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days.”

Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer

"Leonard Nimoy's Confessions About His Emotions", TV And Movie Play magazine (1967)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo
George S. Patton IV photo
Lucy Mack Smith photo
François Fénelon photo
Nina Shatskaya photo
J. William Fulbright photo
Irene Dunne photo