Once we got hit by - on 911 and lost 3,000 people that day, we recognized, and it was one of the key decisions President Bush made, that this is not a law enforcement problem, it is a strategic threat to the United States. It's a war. And based on that, we then adopted a whole set of policies that flowed out of that proposition.
Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.
Night, a more perfect day.
My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.
I take the opportunity each day offers.
When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.
I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player
You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.
You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.
In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasingsurprisingexciting solution.
My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.
Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-12 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.
I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it. . . why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
