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Quotes About Day

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
With the ebb of lust, an ashen sense of awfulness, abetted by the realistic drabness of a grey neuralgic day, crept over me and hummed within my temples.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The evening is the time to praise the day
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All it took was a chance meeting with a stranger, some unexpected conversation. A few moments of kindness from someone who had no inkling of what she'd been through. Someone who wandered into her workplace on a whim and ended up making the worst day of her life seem less awful simply by being in it. "Nice to meet you, Gideon." "Likewise, Savannah.
~ Lara Adrian
J!m squinted his first hate of the day.
~ Larry Doyle
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
~ Larry McMurtry
I look at the check once more and then fold and tuck it into my bra. It's not every day a girl gets to be up close and personal with this much money.
~ Laura Castoro
You always had that power, that desire, to have answers that would fulfill you as a person. You always asked without knowing you were asking. Would it not be amazing if we could go back in time and return to those innocent and simple days when getting the answer to just one or two questions would make your day, and nothing else in the world mattered?
~ Laura Fredricks
The letters, the fading. The labyrinth, the cake. The four hundred brackish lakes of the brain. She searches for the music, but she can't find it. Oh, God, it was here only the other day.
~ Laura Kasischke
La diversión que implica esfuerzo es lo que hace que el día de hoy sea distinto y que aterrice en la memoria.
~ Laura Vanderkam
It's definitely broken," my mom says [...] "Maybe it's unplugged or something," [...] "Honey, it's broken," my mom says. She sounds like she's trying to break it to me gently. I can't really blame her. The other day she told me there was no more vanilla ice cream, and I burst into tears right in the middle of the kitchen. She obviously knows I'm fragile.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Among those in attendance at Santa María de la Victoria that day was a Venetian scholar named Antonio Pigafetta
~ Laurence Bergreen
Sûfîsm, or as some would define it "mystical Islam" has always honored the Divine Feminine. Of course, Allâh has both masculine and feminine qualities, but to the Sûfî, Allâh has always been the Beloved and the Sûfî has always been the Lover. The Qur'an, referring to the final Day, perhaps divulges a portion of this teaching: "And there is manifest to them of God what they had not expected to see.
~ Laurence Galian
Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way, With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole Busy, and elegant hares at play By meadow paths where once you would stroll In the flush of day?
~ Cecil Day-Lewis
They dazzled her, these Richardsons: with their easy confidence, their clear sense of purpose, no matter the time of day.
~ Celeste Ng
În fiecare diminea?? începe o alt? zi.
~ Cesare Pavese
A boy who knits, and an underpants picnic! Could this day get any weirder? I shook my head. No, definitely not.
~ Charise Mericle Harper
The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.
~ Charles Baxter
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
~ Charles Dickens
However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
~ Charles Dickens
Fu quella una data memorabile per me, poiché portò a molti mutamenti in me stesso. Avviene la medesima cosa in ogni esistenza. Immaginate un dato giorno distaccato da tutti gli altri, e pensate come avrebbe potuto esserne differente tutto il corso. Fermati, tu che leggi, e rifletti per un istante sulla lunga catena di ferro od oro, di spini o fiori, che non ti avrebbe mai avvinto, se non si fosse formato il primo anello in quell'unica, memorabile giornata.
~ Charles Dickens
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day
~ Charles Dickens