Day After Day Quotes

#1. How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

Antonio Damasio

#2. Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#3. But deep down inside, I was no longer enamored with the life I'd created. The only purpose I was serving was self-interest. While I rarely showed it to outsiders, my happiness waned day after day. A restless voice kept me up at night, telling me that until I found meaning, the money wouldn't matter.

Adam Braun

#4. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.

Zac Poonen

#5. We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Charles Kettering

#6. If you live your life habitually, just letting day after day flow on by, then you cannot say that you have genuinely lived your life.

Ilchi Lee

#7. You can't coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Steve House

#8. A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

Charles M. Schulz

#9. Jude, it was so hard seeing you day after day, that fucking smile of yours, those eyes, that snarky sense of humor. I wanted you so badly, and not being able to even touch you felt like trying to breathe under a mountain of snow.

Nash Summers

#10. We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Ray Kroc

#11. Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.

Adeline Yen Mah

#12. He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.

Thomas Hardy

#13. For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.

Pope Paul VI

#14. It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. No, this is my revenge. I am giving you just what you want, I'm releasing you. And yet I'm really not. I'll inflict torments on you, subtle torments, day after day, year after year- that's why you're necessary to me.

Buddhadeva Bose

#16. It is day after day. It is week after week. It is month after month. It is year after year. It is only time going and going. There is no joy. There is no lightness of heart. It is only the passing of days. I am young and alone.

Mary MacLane

#17. We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that ... we need multilateral solutions.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

#18. Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. She must jump from square to square, right leg first, then left, then both together, and make a show of caring whether or not she steps on a line. She must go on jumping day after day, bearing the burden of time on her shoulders like a cross that grows heavier from day to day.

Milan Kundera

#20. Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Heather Sellers

#21. Maybe no one person should be that important that their absence drains life of meaning, but he was. Day after day and the loss didnt get any lighter.

C.K. Kelly Martin

#22. Day after day, we pace up and down our life the way we pace up and down a passageway.

Muriel Barbery

#23. The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

#24. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

#25. Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

Franklin P. Adams

#26. Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Mark Helprin

#27. A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Honore De Balzac

#28. There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Robert Hilburn

#29. Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is.

Zibby Oneal

#30. That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Cameron Dokey

#31. Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up
and we are gone.

Edward Young

#32. I am, day after day, falling in love with the years that dwell in his wrinkled face and the memories of the old days which are the beats of his weak heart.

Refaat Alareer

#33. Doomed to practice it day after day, even to the extent of dipping his nib in orange juice to make the words invisible, he has fallen in love with secrecy.

Paul West

#34. Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

Arthur Gordon Webster

#35. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Plato

#36. Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?

George Fordyce

#37. I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Marisha Pessl

#38. When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Criss Jami

#39. I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Dolly Parton

#40. The best traders have trading habits, daily routines they repeat day after day.

Henrique M. Simoes

#41. A shared characteristic in each of these translations is that ea is an active state of being. Like breathing, ea cannot be achieved or possessed; it requires constant action day after day, generation after generation. Unlike

Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua

#42. That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

George Jung

#43. We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.

Chris Christie

#44. To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

William Glasser

#45. We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

Susan Fletcher

#46. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Alain Badiou

#47. He loved Jaime. He loved him so much sometimes he thought he must certainly be losing his mind. It was hard to believe his heart could go on beating minute after minute, day after day, when it felt so distorted and huge and fragile.

Marie Sexton

#48. He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning that was sent out, day after day. He thought it must collect somewhere, in a dank basement room, the mass of it rising and rising like water, and with no end in sight.

Jane Hamilton

#49. Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown

Candace Mumford

#50. Williamson, writing in 1810, tells us that the passes were so infested with tigers that the roads were almost impassible. 'Day after day, for nearly a fortnight, some of the dak people were carried off at one or other of these passes.' In

Ruskin Bond

#51. The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything ... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

Hans Haacke

#52. The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.

Gregory Maguire

#53. The only thing worse than being without you would have been watching them break you day after day, until you weren't yourself anymore

Alexandra Bracken

#54. People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen R. Covey

#55. Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

Tom Seaver

#56. The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Georges Simenon

#57. I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Sarah Carter

#58. For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#59. I've seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

Lee Strobel

#60. What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

Scott Westerfeld

#61. Day after day it was as if someone had taken my life apart and polished every bit of it really carefully before putting it all back together.

Jenny Downham

#62. As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

Steven Van Zandt

#63. But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

Margaret Atwood

#64. No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

Matthieu Ricard

#65. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

#66. Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his chest hurt to think about it.

Tabitha Suzuma

#67. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.

Elizabeth George Speare

#68. I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
- Bilbo Baggins

J.R.R. Tolkien

#69. When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.

William Butler Yeats

#70. Oh, how I love to wear him day after day, greeting my potential pay checks with a chest full of ugly fish.

Candace Knoebel

#71. Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

Garry Trudeau

#72. I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

Ian Fleming

#73. With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI

#74. If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

Gary Yourofsky

#75. Home's what you make it." Nin shrugged. "Could be a ship. Could be what you carry around on your back day after day. Could be family. Or maybe just one person you love more than any other. That's home." The

Traci Chee

#76. The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.

Amruta Patil

#77. Day after day there rose a smell which Lucy found very hard to describe: sweet- yes, but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh wild lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain-

C.S. Lewis

#78. [T]here is nothing worse than doing what you don't want to do, day after day, to little renummeration or applause. It's the death of your soul.

Adam Davies

#79. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

Steven Pressfield

#80. One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Dwayne Johnson

#81. Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Roger Ebert

#82. You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.

Patricia Engel

#83. When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Stephen King

#84. Day after day she asked Papa with quivering lip: "Mayn't I get up and go down stairs this morning?" And

Susan Coolidge

#85. Life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see.

Liane Moriarty

#86. Oh it is not without scathe that one is gentle, courteous, reasonable, patient, day after day, year after year.

Samuel Beckett

#87. A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.

Liane Moriarty

#88. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1

Marc Seifer

#89. I don't need a happily ever after, J, I just need the ever after part. The adjective can be whatever. Up and down ever after, sometimes rocky ever after, crazy ever after - I don't give a shit. As long as you stick around, we'll just do the best we can, day after day.

Mary Calmes

#90. Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding ... Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

Annie Dillard

#91. Day after day, we need to be reminded of God's unfailing love for us in Christ.

Anonymous

#92. Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...

Virginia Alison

#93. In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV ... never had a garage sale.

Erma Bombeck

#94. I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.

Sylvia Plath

#95. How I have walked ... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Thomas Cole

#96. God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.

David Weber

#97. Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jon Katz

#98. Follow your dreams and beielve in your heart day after day. Then sit back and just watch great things happen in your life!

Taliah Pina

#99. Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Andrew Weil

#100. Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

Ray Lewis