Quotes About Days

These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.

On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

Men of uncommon intellect , who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days, and then are lifeless for as many more.

we waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nights our silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

shock, shock, lord, lord, the factories. the wasted days, the days without meaning, the days of bosses and idiots, and the slow and brutal clock.

La vida, tan fea como parece, quizá merezca vivirse tres o cuatro días más.

Taking the life of a nation is a serious task, V says. Few succeed, even if the cause is just. We didn't, and ours wasn't. But sometimes I can't help missing those days when we all just took care of each other.

Simon and Garfunkel sang, back in the 1960's, in these days "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.")

The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

He tells another story about all that dust in those days.

He tells another story about all that dust in those days. "My

There was no wire across in those days, no big house on the other side; nothing but the open yap of the planet, yawning as if bored by the pace of evolution.

Salt-sweet. Like not quite ripe strawberries covered with the light salt sweat of running days and hopping, skipping, jumping hours.

Sadness is a dagger that's been sharpened to strike at your heart. As days pass, it only gets sharper and sharper.

It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

Her reason might have collapsed by now, of course, nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.

Cuántos días inútiles! Días llenos de historias, demasiadas historias turbias. Historias incompletas, apenas iniciadas e hinchadas ya como una vieja madera a la intemperie. Historias demasiado oscuras para mi. Su olor, que era el podrido olor de mi casa, me causaba cierta náusea...

In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.

wasted sixteen days of our life in that hospital bed because sure, health is fun, but what good is health without love?

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie.

Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.

The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.