One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . .
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.
I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.