"When a day that you happen to know……" — John Wyndham
"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."
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28 Quotes by John Wyndham
John Wyndham has 28 quotes on this site.
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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a…
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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets.…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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