Daily Quotes
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
Tags: Four, Used ✍ Author: Aravind AdigaI guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Tags: Guess, Work ✍ Author: Neil ArmstrongWithout deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Tags: Deep, Life ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Tags: Life, Respect ✍ Author: C. S. LewisAll major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Tags: Compassion, Love ✍ Author: Dalai LamaIt is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Tags: Cannot, Help ✍ Author: Dalai LamaPeace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Tags: Old, Peace ✍ Author: John F. KennedyYour daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Tags: Life, Religion ✍ Author: Khalil GibranThe half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Tags: Few, Whole ✍ Author: Charles BabbageA slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Tags: Air, Enjoyment ✍ Author: Walter BagehotPoliticians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Tags: Happen, Large ✍ Author: Stephen BakerFires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
Tags: Men, Work ✍ Author: James A. BaldwinIt's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
Tags: Life, Moment ✍ Author: Alan BallDeath is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Tags: Death, Die ✍ Author: Napoleon BonaparteI have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Tags: Rich, Trying ✍ Author: Vince CableWe are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
Tags: Business, Life ✍ Author: John CageWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Tags: Death, Thinking ✍ Author: Albert CamusGive us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
Tags: Among, Give ✍ Author: Lizzy CaplanBecause I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.
Tags: Fake, Show ✍ Author: Steve CarellThere's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.
Tags: Experience, Job ✍ Author: Steve CarellI grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Tags: God, Great ✍ Author: Thomas CarlyleThe main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
Tags: Reason, Wrong ✍ Author: Salvador DaliVisit partners pages
I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
Tags: Country, Future ✍ Author: Edwidge DanticatWe must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Tags: Ignore, Time ✍ Author: Marian Wright EdelmanWe receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Tags: Against, Human ✍ Author: Jan EgelandAlso, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
Tags: Done, Else ✍ Author: Dave EggersWhen you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.
Tags: Feeling, Single ✍ Author: Jesse EisenbergI have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
Tags: Show, Three ✍ Author: Jesse EisenbergI don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
Tags: Beyond, Changes ✍ Author: Paloma FaithAnarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
Tags: America, May ✍ Author: Louis FarrakhanCurrently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
Tags: Security, Social ✍ Author: Chaka FattahThe prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
Tags: Best, Meet ✍ Author: William FeatherIt's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
Tags: Beauty, Happy ✍ Author: Craig FergusonTo be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Tags: Human, Means ✍ Author: Stephen FryLet everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Tags: Life, Try ✍ Author: Mahatma GandhiMan falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Tags: Happiness, Thinking ✍ Author: Mahatma GandhiPrayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Tags: Heart, Words ✍ Author: Mahatma GandhiMixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
Tags: Human, Reality ✍ Author: Jorge GarciaI've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.
Tags: Life, Mom ✍ Author: Nina GarciaI eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied.
Tags: Cheat, Until ✍ Author: Tyson GayThe roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
Tags: Armed, Roads ✍ Author: John White GearyBeing a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Tags: Christian, Process ✍ Author: Billy GrahamGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Tags: Die, God ✍ Author: Dag HammarskjoldA cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
Tags: Children, Lives ✍ Author: Aleqa HammondAnd if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
Tags: Between, War ✍ Author: Michael HanekeHabit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Tags: Dull, Habit ✍ Author: Aldous Huxley'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
Tags: Decision, Spring ✍ Author: Jack IronsThe daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Tags: Giving, Time ✍ Author: Brandon T. JacksonJust able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.
Tags: Country, Life ✍ Author: Jesse JamesA news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.
Tags: Else, Sunday ✍ Author: Peter JamesI spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
Tags: Funny, Learned ✍ Author: Karl JaspersThe emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
Tags: Emotional, Higher ✍ Author: Mary KarrTo the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Tags: History, Mind ✍ Author: Irving R. KaufmanThe Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Tags: Communists, Democracy ✍ Author: Elia KazanBack in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
Tags: Family, Time ✍ Author: Bob KeeshanAnd poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Tags: God, Speak ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Tags: Enough, Life ✍ Author: Louis L\'AmourWe daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
Tags: Community, Encourage ✍ Author: Joseph LancasterThe daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Tags: Black, Why ✍ Author: Gary LarsonIn our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Tags: Experience, Society ✍ Author: Christopher LaschIdeologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Tags: Cannot, Whole ✍ Author: Christopher LaschIt's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Tags: Away, Increase ✍ Author: Bruce LeeWe die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
Tags: Happy, Life ✍ Author: George MacDonaldThere is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
Tags: Between, Work ✍ Author: Norm MacDonaldMy table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Tags: Broken, May ✍ Author: Ernst MachInformation is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.
Tags: Expanding ✍ Author: Vanessa MaeBrands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.
Tags: Challenge, May ✍ Author: Daniel MainwaringThe reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
Tags: Hate, Sick ✍ Author: Zayn MalikHere is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
Tags: Character, Done ✍ Author: Michelle MalkinBut my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
Tags: After, Beauty ✍ Author: James NasmythAlthough there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
Tags: Almost, Growing ✍ Author: Joseph NeedhamIt would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.
Tags: Life, Try ✍ Author: Corin NemecVulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Tags: Business, Show ✍ Author: Carroll O\'ConnorI often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.
Tags: Book, Fun ✍ Author: Jamie OliverThoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.
Tags: Life, Thoughtful ✍ Author: Suze OrmanFor it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Tags: Bread, Pray ✍ Author: ParacelsusThe purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Tags: Art, Life ✍ Author: Pablo PicassoTerror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Tags: Society, Understand ✍ Author: Tariq RamadanWe have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.
Tags: Great, Law ✍ Author: John RedwoodIf your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Tags: Life, Yourself ✍ Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTake control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Tags: Experience, Life ✍ Author: Tony RobbinsNothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Tags: Experience, Said ✍ Author: Vita Sackville-WestIt's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
Tags: Pretty, Woman ✍ Author: Katey SagalFrom zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
Tags: Face, Food ✍ Author: Abdus SalamI think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.
Tags: Honest, Whatever ✍ Author: Alberto SalazarA conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Tags: Change, Experience ✍ Author: George SantayanaThe recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Tags: Growth, Survival ✍ Author: Virginia SatirIt's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.
Tags: Together, Working ✍ Author: Al-Waleed bin TalalOn a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.
Tags: Hard, Sexy ✍ Author: Tila TequilaGames are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.
Tags: Bad, Time ✍ Author: John TerryI spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
Tags: Lie, Past ✍ Author: Barry UnsworthWe take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
Tags: Great, Others ✍ Author: John UpdikeIf there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.
Tags: Leave, Try ✍ Author: Jenna UshkowitzMoving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.
Tags: Learning, Moving ✍ Author: Sharon Van Etten