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"Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)."
"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."
"Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace."
"I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that."
"I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life."
"One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question."
"Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other."
"My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it."
"In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you."
"One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy."
"There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself."
"In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential."
"One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio."
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
"If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
"If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only."
"We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there."
"When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."
"I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him."
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
