Today Quotes - 7
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Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
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In the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories ofthemarvellous, and the couturiers thelast possessors of the wand of Cinderella's Fairy Godmother.
Christian Dior— Dior by Dior (translated by Antonia Fraser,1957).
As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
Henry Reed— 1946 'ChardWhitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)', a parody ofT S Eliot's style.
It is not the case that Germany is rapidly approaching equality with us. Her real strength is not fifty per cent. of our strength in Europe to-day.
stanley baldwin— Responding to claims from Winston Churchill on the size of Germany's air force in a House of Commons debate (28 November 1934); published in Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 295, col. 882.
Apparently some fire-eaters to-day have been saying "Never again must we allow ourselves to get into the same condition of military unprepardness, so we are going to build up a vast war machine in this country in order to surround defeated Germany with a sea of peaceful tranquillity..." It looks as though the consequences of defeat will be more desirable than those of victory.
Aneurin Bevan— Hansard, House of Commons 5th series, vol. 402, col. 1559.
— Speech in the House of Commons on 2 August 1944.
...the power [...] has never disarmed, is today in certain respects stronger than ever, possesses a much better disciplined, more unconditionally submissive throng of officials than in any former century, and is only waiting for the hour when it can unscrupulously assert itself.
houston stewart chamberlain— (about the Catholic Church)
In the western world today everyone is a democrat.
moses i. finley— Preface, p. ix
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.
jimmy hoffa— Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses", p. 90
"People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didn't see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Eto'o and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight."
henrik larsson— Thierry Henry, UEFA Champions' League Final 2006 (Arsenal 1-2 Barcelona) [[2]]
In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
akio morita— p. 175 (Made in Japan (1986))
If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today. ... I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means.
charles a. reich— Preface to 1995 edition of The Greening of America
Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.
e. lee spence— Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef, Discovery News, by Rossella Lorenzi, Tue Feb 7, 2012 03:43 PM ET
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
— Letter to Janice White (1952-04-27)
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.
douglas adams— As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001)
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
bertolt brecht— "Christmas legend" [Weinachtslegende] (1923), Berliner Börsen-Courier (25 December 1924); trans. in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 99
"George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans."
howard dean— From his official declaration of candidacy, June 23, 2003
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
benjamin graham— Part I, Chapter II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p. 28
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.
Randall Jarrell— “Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 299
The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.
— Collected Works, Vol. 27, pp. 383–387
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
marcus aurelius— VIII, 22. (Book VIII)
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. …[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.
josé ortega y gasset— Chap.IX: The Primitive and the Technical
I stand here before you in absolute awe of the fact that Congressman Ryan, Patricia's father, gave his life in an attempt to rescue victims from another dangerous cult. Looking at the politicians who serve in our Congress today, should make everyone realize what a rare man Leo Ryan was. I greatly admire him.
leo j. ryan— Richard Behar at a Cult Awareness Network conference (1992)
The needs of man, if life is to survive, are usually said to be four -- air, water, food, and in the severe climates, protection. But it is becoming clear today that the human organism has another absolute necessity... This fifth need is the need for novelty -- the need, throughout our waking life, for continuous variety in the external stimulation of our eyes, ears, sense organs, and all our nervous network.
— John R. Platt (1959) "The Fifth Need of Man," in: Horizon 1 (July 1959), p.109.
So, good news - I saw a dog today. Have you seen a dog? You probably have.
Buddy the Elf— Elf (2003), Will Ferrell
Nor am I of those who despise dreamers . For the world would be at the level of zero were it not for its dreamers - gone and of today.
— Louis Sullivan, in The Public Papers, p.156
Whate’er there be of SorrowI’ll put off till To-morrow,And when To-morrow comes, why then’T will be To-day and Joy again.
john kendrick bangs— The Word.
today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
bob marley— As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. today is for my cause a day of days.
robert frost— "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" (1960), the poem is also known as "Dedication". Frost had planned to read "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" at John F. Kennedy's imauguration, but the blinding light from the sun and snow prompted him to recite "The Gift Outright" from memory. Source: Tuten, Nancy Lewis; Zubizarreta, John (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313294648
today many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you?
steve maraboli— p. 88 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
today I sat before the cliff Until the mist and rainbows disappeared I followed the emerald stream Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds At night a bright moon floats in the sky I am free of the busy world There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" (1975) EWD498. Published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17:5 (May 1982), pp. 13–15.
