#day

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#devote #done #each #evening #every

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#higher #nothing #rated #than #value

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#colored #day #i #more #night

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#african #african-american #america #black #called

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#dams #even #give #never #never give up

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ↗

— William Golding

#gray #keep #me #over #peer

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#diamonds #i #neck #rather #roses

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. ↗

— William Goldman

#books #day #dies #each #go

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? ↗