Today Quotes - 9
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Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
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today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.
W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois— Preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969).
'Form follows profit' is the aesthetic principle of our times. Thus, design skill is measured today by the architect's ability to build the largest possible enclosure for the smallest investment in the quickest time.
Rogers, Richard George Rogers, Baron— 1990 22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
lucille ball— Page 42 (Love, Lucy (1996))
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
— sleeve notes, The Sickness (2000)
Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
gustavo gutierrez— Chapter One, Theology: A Critical reflection, p. 5
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.
It would scarcely be an exaggeration to say that the greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regards as the public good.
friedrich hayek— p. 262 (The Constitution of Liberty (1960))
The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
anthony kennedy— Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (26 June 2003)
today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.
steve maraboli— p. 25 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead— Attributed to M. Mead in: Anita E. Woolfolk (2000) Educational Psychology. p.212
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
muhammad reza pahlavi— As quoted in Marvin Zonis (1991), Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, page 65
Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.The Berbers of north Africa to-day are racially identical with the Spaniards and south Italians.
madison grant— Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, Scribner's sons, 1916, p.137
For nature is the noblest engineer, yet uses a grinding economy working up all that is wasted to-day in to to-marrows creation;not a superfluous grain of sand for all ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
— By Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in p. 1 (Sand: The Never-ending Story)
"Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar [ sic ] and his family in cold blood. There would not be communism in Russia today if had not been for Charles Darwin's book on evolution."
— "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution Chapter 4", 1996, (a transcript of Kent Hovind's early sermons)
Machinery mutilates people today, even if it also feeds them.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 29 (Sourced)
This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
william shakespeare— The play Henry V
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
— John F. Kennedy, in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1979), p. 76.
While the new physics was developing in the twentieth century, the mechanistic Cartesian world view and the principles of Newtonian physics maintained their strong influence on Western scientific thinking, and even today many scientists still hold to the mechanistic paradigm, although physicists themselves have gone beyond it.
— Fritjof Capra (1975) The Tao of Physics. p. 93
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.
— Interviewed by Leonard Liebling in The Musical Courier, 1939; cited from Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 351.
O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I don't know whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you carefully and take these words to those who could not be present here today.
— Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim [ ]
[T]he vast majority of physicians observe the standards of their profession, and act only on the basis of carefully deliberated medical judgments relating to life and health. Plainly, the Court today rejects any claim that the Constitution requires abortions on demand.
— Warren E. Burger, U.S. Supreme Court, incorrectly assessing the eventual legal interpretation of the ruling and development of abortion-on-demand, from his concurring opinion in Doe v. Bolton, (January 22, 1973)[13].
How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
— Who: P. T. Barnum, circus entrepreneur
The gale, it plies the saplings double, It blows so hard,'twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon.
— 1896 A Shropshire Lad, no.31.
To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.
a. e. housman— No. 19 ("To an Athlete Dying Young"), st. 2.
Despite declining catches, New England fishermen continue to receive state and federal tax incentives that encourage them in some cases all but compel them to acquire bigger boats and to harvest the seas more intensively. today the fishermen of Massachusetts are reduced to fishing the hideous hagfish, for which there is a slight market in the Far East, but even their numbers are now falling.
Bill Bryson— Page 285 (A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003))
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.
Nikos Kazantzakis— "The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 277
Out of these troubled times, our objective a new world order can emerge. today, that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we have known.
— George H. W. Bush, in a speech to a joint session of Congress (1990 Sep 11)
today IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
abbie hoffman— p. 184 (Revolution for the Hell of It (1968))
