Tomorrow's Quotes
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If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.
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More Tomorrow's Quotes
Never anticipate tomorrow's sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.
— c.1100 Ruba iya t, stanza 21 (translated by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah,1972).
Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.
— 1964 In the Daily Mirror.
I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in memory, see them again in my mind's eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all, I must make good use of them in tomorrow's life.
— Deliver Us From Evil (1956); recounting Dooley's life-changing experience in 1954, while in the Navy and stationed in Vietnam evacuating anti-Communist refugees, observing the misery of the people.
In tomorrow's world we must all work together as hard as ever, if we're truly to be United Nations
— The Queen urging nations to work together at her second address of the United Nations [4]
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
william dean howells— Pordenone, IV
Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.
james nicoll— Usenet article (2006)
There are already scientists-- respected scientists in this country who do experiments on things that most people consider supernatural, such as prayer. When Newton proposed the theory of gravitation it was dismissed as supernaturalism because it was action at a distance. What constitutes supernaturalism in today's science may very well not be supernatural in tomorrow's science.
jonathan wells— Wells testimony, Kansas evolution hearings, 2005.
“Whats o’clock?” It wants a quarter to twelve, And to-morrow's doomsday.
tim powers— Chapter 19 (p. 207, quoting T. L. Beddoes)
Sing, sweet nightingale, Sing me a song of a night never-ending, Sing, sweet nightingale, And I'll try to pretend That tomorrow's nowhere near And there's nothing to fear.
tom springfield— Song Morning Please Don't Come
So man, the moth, is not afraid, it seems, To span Omnipotence, and measure might That knows no measure, by the scanty rule And standard of his own, that is to-day, And is not ere to-morrow's sun go down.
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, line 211.
The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
— Ebenezer Elliott, The Village Patriarch, Love and Other Poems, Spring.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard core unemployed.
— John F. Kennedy, statement on the need for training or rehabilitation of Selective Service rejectees, September 30, 1963. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 753.
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
— Tom Cruise, in Reporting for Doodie, p.5
Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'!
— Who: James French.
— Notes: French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men do not say 'I shall live on.' tomorrow's life's too late; live today.
— Epigrams, bk.1, no.15.
tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see.
st. vincent— "The Neighbors"
