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"We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost."
"Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself."
"Who loses a day loses life."
"By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . ."
"Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious."
"One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet."
"One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble."
"By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom."
"One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry."
"I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling."
"If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed."
"The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!"
"Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?"
"Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day."
"I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!""
"If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist."
"Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven."
"One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home."
"After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'"
"One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him."
