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Good Day Quotes - Page 14

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Bert Lance
Good Day, Names, House
1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

Benjamin Franklin
Good Day, Men, Pork
Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.170, Penguin

Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days

Barry Moltz
Passion, Good Day, Bad Day

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

Barry Lyga
School, Good Day, Goddess
Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

Ayelet Zurer
Good Day, People, Creative
Source: collider.com

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

Atul Gawande
Mean, Good Day, People
"Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

Anne Lamott
Real, Good Day, Writing
Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.215, Anchor

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

Andy Ogle
Good Day, Bad Day, Mma

Men can bear all things but good days.

Amelia Barr
Good Day, Men, Bears

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

Albert Camus
Good Day, Answers, Ifs

We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

Alain Resnais
Father, Heart, Good Day
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Having worked on climate crisis for almost 40 years now, I've seen good days and bad days. And through all of that time, the general trajectory has been it's getting worse, it's getting worse. But in the last ten to 20 years, there's a second development; the solutions are more and more, and more available. So having this broad overview that I've developed over a long period of time, I now see the evidence that the solutions are available. We're gonna do this.

Al Gore
Good Day, Bad Day, Long

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