Wednesday Morning Quotes

• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

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  Dean Koontz

  Morning   Eye   Journey  

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

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  Andre Dubus

  Daughter   Morning   New York  

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational   Good Morning   Strength  

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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• It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

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  Susanna Clarke

  Morning   People   Tuesday  

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

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  David Gest

  Morning   Magazines   Thursday  

  "Chloe Sevigny's mouse troubles; J. Lo's new fling?; Janet sparks nipple jewelry craze". www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2004.

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• So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.

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  Cass Sunstein

  Morning   Couple   Real  

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

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  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning   Doors   Trying  

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• The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It’s a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years.

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  Bryant Gumbel

  Morning   Years   Issues  

  "The Today Show", NBC, May 9, 1990.

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