Day Quotes
30562 Day quotes by 12268 unique authors
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If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
— George Carlin
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it…
— Hippocrates
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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of…
— Michael Shermer
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
— C.S. Lewis
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We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves…
— Carlos Castaneda
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around…
— Sam Walton
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Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.
— Ralph Marston
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There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
— James E. Faust
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I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'
— Michelle Obama
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until…
— Stephen Covey
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is…
— Phyllis Diller
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,…
— Laozi
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To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!
— Maureen O'Hara
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be…
— James G. Blaine
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened…
— Jimmy Carter
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[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay…
— William J. Clinton
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
— Barbara Jordan
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Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
— Winston Churchill
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring…
— Peter Mayle
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in…
— J. G. Holland
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
— Robert Frost
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will…
— Florence Nightingale
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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