Today Quotes - 10
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Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
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We're heading into nut country today.
— 1963 Spoken to his wife in Fort Worth a few hours before the assassination in Dallas. Quoted in William Manchester The Death of a President (1967).
The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.
mike bickle— Eckholm, Erik (9 July 2011), "Where Worship Never Pauses", New York Times, retrieved on 2011-08-06
The immediate source of ecological crisis is capitalism... Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere... I believe the color of radicalism today is not red, but green.
— Steve Chase, ed., Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman(Boston South End Press, 1991, p 57-59); O'Leary, Richard. Environmental mafia: the enemy is us. pp. 41
And he looks down where the soil has been dug and there's a sparkle, and there's a glint in the morning light, and he reaches down and he picks it up with his stubby dirty fingers, and the last thing in the world he might have expected, and here is this, this speck of the future, this tiny little shock that's going to reverberate right to today -- literally till now! He picks it up, and he says, you know, he says, 'My God!' And he yells out, he said, 'My God, I think I've found gold!'
j. s. holliday— About James W. Marshall discovering gold in 1848
You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.
rodney king— King's point of view on how things have changed since the incident Five years later, wounds from L.A. riots still sting (April 29, 1997).
The mood of the '50s is like today.
nancy peters— "City Lights' silver lining", Publishers Weekly, 2003-07-14. : Referring to the prosecution and acquital of Alan Ginsberg's book of poems, Howl, for obscenity in 1957.
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
bill shankly— From his autobiography It's More Important Than That (1976), discussing the period after his retirement
We are mourning today a great Canadian and a great leader. He was a friend, he was a colleague for many of us, if not all of us.
nycole turmel— Turmel vows to stay on until NDP chooses leader, August 23, 2011
In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today — well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?
Edmund White— Chapter Four (p. 92)
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.
julien benda— pp. 126-127 (regarding homo faber)
Oliver's army is here to stay Oliver's army are on their way And I would rather be anywhere else But here today.
elvis costello— Oliver's Army This song makes reference to the British army and to Oliver Cromwell.
Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
felix frankfurter— Quoted in National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland, March 1, 1965).
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
hans hofmann— As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 119
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
Irving Kristol— The Public Interest, Spring 1973
Fifty years from today, Americans will revere the name, 'Obama.' Because like his Canadian predecessors, he chose the tough responsibilities of national leadership over the meaningless nostrums of sterile partisanship that we see too much of in Canada and around the world.
brian mulroney— September 17, 2009, YouTube video
"Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. ”
dan rather— Rather's first lines in his debut as anchor of The CBS Evening News, Monday, March 9, 1981
The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.
— Eckholm, Erik (9 July 2011), "Where Worship Never Pauses", New York Times, retrieved on 2011-08-06
The Old Nawabi Jewel [Bhopal], today capital of Madhya Pradesh, brought to mind the capital of Andhra Pradesh. Nizami Hyderabad was the only Muslim state that outsized Bhopal. Both offer a rich built and culinary Nawabi heritage, and both offer glimpses of varieties of food eaten in all the corners of their respective states.
— Lesley A. Esteves, in Outlook Traveller (April 2008), p.85
Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin (Friends of the party) who begin accusais, Such as "Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray, Look yes last night, and yet say No to-day?"
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XII, Stanza 34.
For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
— Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989).
Suddenly I laid eyes on you, That's when you made me brand new. today is a holiday for two, It's our anniversary.
Charles Wilson— "Our Anniversary" (2013)
"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today..."
— "Captain Jean-Luc Picard" in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4, Episode 21 "The Drumhead".
Santiago is the today and tomorrow of Latin American Art. His exquisite line and masterful talent are a great asset for his native Colombia.
— Edgar Kaufmann conversation, letter to Edgar Kaufmann Jr, 1932, Wis.
Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it to-morrow.
— John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother. Song, Act II, scene 2.
You have spoken much today of my self-sacrifice and devotion to my country . I have heard that kind of speech ever since I came out of jail , but I hear it with embarrassment, with something of pain .
— Sri Aurobindo, in Penguin Sri Aurobindo Reader, p.24
The black people’s struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.
muammar gaddafi— Closing remarks at the African Union summit (4 February 2009), quoted in RFI English (4 February 2009) "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'" by Zeenat Hansrod
Either one defines “personality” and “individuality” in terms of their possibilities within the established form of civilization, in which case their realization is for the vast majority tantamount to successful adjustment. Or one defines them in terms of their transcending content, including their socially denied potentialities beyond (and beneath) their actual existence; in this case, their realization would imply transgression, beyond the established form of civilization, to radically new modes of “personality” and “individuality” incompatible with the prevailing ones. today, this would mean “curing” the patient to become a rebel or (which is saying the same thing) a martyr.
herbert marcuse— “Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism”
Bhopal is known as the “city of lakes”; its name is a derivation of Bhoj Tal (“Bhoj’s Lake”), a lake constructed by Bhoj, a Hindu raja , in the 11th century. today, that lake is the Upper Bhopal Lake (Bada Talab), which is connected to the Lower Bhopal Lake (Chhota Talab) by an aqueduct. The lakes supply drinking water and are used for recreation.
— Encyclopedia Britannica, in “Bhopal”
