"Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out."
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"One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you"
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
"Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock."
"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."
"If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world."
"One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends."
"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
"She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust."
"For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and people liked it so much that there's a version of it still there today - unlike some concrete buildings that were just built for money and that can be destroyed from one day to the next. Concrete can be very fragile during earthquakes."
"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
"The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains."
"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist."
"One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings."
"One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards."
"[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day."
"After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason."
"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."
"One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed."
"If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet"