Live For Today Quotes - Page 6

• If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

  Jonathan Alter

  Writing, Alive, Customers

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

  Bob Costas

  Alive, Nicole, Oj Simpson

  "A gun control halftime show: Should Bob Costas have spoken out on Belcher suicide?" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2012.

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• If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

  Bob Costas

  Gun, Alive, Ifs

  "CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U.S". "CBS This Morning", www.mrc.org.

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• Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning

  Michael Swanwick

  Character, Mean, Hands

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• There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong. What they accomplished, we could never accomplish today...What's happening now is lightweight compared to what happened before. If Louis Armstrong was alive today, he'd be a superstar. If Art Tatum was alive today, my god, all the piano players would get on their knees. So that's what's missing today; we've been cut off from our heritage.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Appreciation, Art

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• That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Thinking, Want

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• The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.

  Reg Butler

  Men, Rocks, Doubt

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• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.

  Susannah York

  Country, Sacrifice, Mirrors

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• How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Impact, Today, Eternity

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• Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Eight, Trying

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• I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
  So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.

  Edgar Cayce

  Memories, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Mary Ann Woodward, Edgar Cayce (1972). “Edgar Cayce's Story of Karma: Selections, Arrangement and Comments”

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• Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, Luxury, Interesting

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• We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

  Norma McCorvey

  Children, Couple, Want

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• You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.

  Eric Massa

  Thinking, Gentleman, Today

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 8, 2010.

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• To live is to choose.

  Kofi Annan

  Today

  Twitter post from May 10, 2016

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• It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Science, Skeletons

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• If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

  Herb Kelleher

  Brother, Humorous, Fire

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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

  Michael Gurian

  Boys, Trying, Alive

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
  live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
  looks like cunning.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Covering, Looks

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• We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

  David Foster Wallace

  Math, Psychology, Important

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Would Be, Alive

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.

  John L. Balderston

  Life, Death, Isis

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