Quotes about Afternoon

Businessman, President, 37th U.S. President

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Afternoon - Beach - Golfing - Party - People - Purpose - Unhappy - World

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A. A. Milne

Author

It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

Afternoon - Gentleness - Listening - Sound

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

Afternoon - Father - Remembering

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

Afternoon - Balance - Knowledge - Mindset - Quality - Refuse - Remembering - Selfishness - Sometimes - Waiting - Whole

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

Afternoon - Arguing - Laziness - Lie - Reading - Science

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

Afternoon - Cost - Excitement - Feelings - Worrying

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Afternoon - Certainty - Death - Grief - Imagination - Obscurity

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Afternoon - Facts - Giving - Jobs - Lawyer - Production - Sleeping - Tea - Theory

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

Afternoon - Journey - Mornings - Progression

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

Afternoon - Children - Philosophy - Skepticism

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Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

Afternoon - Evening - Internet - Mornings - People - Phone - Tasks

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Afternoon - Routine

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Afternoon - Mornings

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poet, Poet Laureate of the U.K.

In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

Afternoon - Breathing - Weariness

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Esther Hicks

Author, Author

When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.

Afternoon - Manifestation - People - Resistance - Week

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

Afternoon - Emotions - Generosity - Memory - Mornings - Quarrel - Reconciling - Together - Treasure - Trial

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.

Afternoon - Arms - End - Harshness - Mornings - Secrets - Water - Writing

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

Afternoon - Consciousness - Home - Inferiority - Nursing

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Educator, Writer, Philosopher, Reformer

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Afternoon - Food - Mornings - Sleeping - Venture - Writing

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