Dailiness Quotes

#1. Holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Joan D. Chittister

#2. Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

Alice Munro

#3. So often we measure
by what is false.
We should measure
by what is barely legible
barely in our dailiness.
It is the invisible that doesn't lie
the invisible through which
we see ourselves finally
on a back street in the world.

Peter Gizzi

#4. He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.

Brenna Yovanoff

#5. When dailiness enters memory, repetition fixes places in the mind, but it also burdens them with a wealth of experience that is often difficult to untangle.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

Nicholson Baker

#7. I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful

Alice Notley

#8. Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.

E.L. Doctorow

#9. The moment the frightened people understand the sweet dailiness of their lives - the swallow of morning orange juice, the tilting curve taken on a bicycle - is already gone.

Emma Cline

#10. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Joan Didion

#11. Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Ralph Marston

#12. Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Paul Allen

#13. There's no difference between one's killing
and making decisions that will send others to kill.
It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Golda Meir

#14. I send him an email back informing him that since this is his nineteenth relative in grave danger, he needs to either consult a tantric to remove a curse on his family or to simply stop lying to take extra days off. I shut my computer and hurriedly get ready to reach the office.

Twinkle Khanna

#15. Every now and then I feel like I am only receiving one track of a stereo recording, and this was one such time. I had no idea what - well, to be honest, I didn't even have an idea what to have an idea about.

Jeff Lindsay

#16. Love, love will tear us apart, again.

Ian Curtis

#17. I quit because I can't stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

Dolores Huerta

#18. I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.

It's possible that he is already aware, if only in a 'don't step on the small girl' kind of way.

Laini Taylor