These Days Quotes - Page 18

• Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

  Harold Bloom

  Responsibility, Political, Lemmings

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

  Wilkie Collins

  Father, Garden, Hands

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.3350, Delphi Classics

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• Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  Ian Fleming

  Moving, Hero, Fighting

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Movie, Artist, World

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• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

  Neville Figgis

  Love, Father, Character

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• These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Land, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this.

  Trace Adkins

  Baby, Pregnancy, Missing

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Ideas, Problem, Good Ideas

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• As fast as we're going these days, especially because of the aerodynamics, we're all concerned about abusing tires. It's so fast that you're afraid of what you're going to do to the tires.

  Jeff Gordon

  Aerodynamics, Tire, Concerned

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• People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.

  Helon Habila

  Book, Responsibility, Tired

  Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

  Kristen Ashley

  Eye, Light, Smoking

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• Most rappers these days is actors,
  And I can't keep watching the same movie.

  Mick Jenkins

  Rap, Hip Hop, Actors

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• These days you can't see who's in cahoots,
  Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Kkk, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Reality, Essence, Atheism

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

  Shirley Jones

  Reality, Feelings, Who Cares

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• I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.

  Shane Warne

  Reality, Thinking, Bubbles

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• Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

  Bill Griffith

  Reality, Attention, Way

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• It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Rome, America, United States

  "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.

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• These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Teamwork, Sides, Inspirational Team

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• If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

  Tina Turner

  Common Sense, Giving, Worry

  "Tina Turner's tips for staying sexy at 70 as she embarks on another world tour". www.mirror.co.uk. February 02, 2009.

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• Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Memorable, Dark

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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