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  • We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.

    Queens   Children   War  
    "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.
  • Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.

    Party   Rain   Men  
    Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

    Sweet   Air   Water  
    Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.5, Penguin
  • "I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

    "Wilde Complete Plays".
  • I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

    Thinking   Giving   May  
    Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”
  • I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

    Strength   Hate   Women  
  • The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

    Death   Horse   Would Be  
    Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.21
  • Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

    Fighting   Order   Soul  
  • The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

    Spring   Exercise   Men  
  • One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

    World   Fine   Predatory  
  • The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

    Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.34, Courier Corporation
  • One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

    Fighting   Boys   Night  
  • I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.

    Men   Thinking   Nurse  
    Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”
  • It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

    Art   Character   Drawing  
    Camille Pissarro, John Rewald (1963). “Camille Pissarro”, Harry N Abrams Inc
  • And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

    Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books
  • I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.

    Your Side   Feet   Twelve  
  • Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

    Self   Shining   Ego  
    "Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom".
  • But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

    Age   Care   Forests  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (1998). “North and South”, p.122, OUP Oxford
  • But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

    Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.18, New Directions Publishing
  • One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

    Spring   Doe   April  
    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions
  • At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

    Men   Thinking   Tea  
    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
  • Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

    Heart   Blood   Broken  
    James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.462, Simon and Schuster
  • Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.180, New Directions Publishing
  • There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

    People   Envy   Reason  
    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.141
  • Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

    Memories   Cutting   Men  
    Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”
  • A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

    Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8
  • I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

  • How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

    Fine   Fine Day  
  • If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin
  • After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.

    Light   Air   Blue  
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