Today Quotes - Page 18

• We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Survival, Alternatives

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)

  Hiram Maxim

  Science, Thinking, Errors

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• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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• There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Life And Death

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• People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Agreement, Average

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Jail

  Source: collider.com

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• We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

  Benjamin Carson

  Dog, Rabbits, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you look at the economics of Nokia roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

  Stephen Elop

  Smart, Thinking, Phones

  "Quest Means Business", edition.cnn.com. October 26, 2011.

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boredom, Tomorrow, Console

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• Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Europe, Morality, Herds

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• Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.

  Martial

  Live For Today, Too Late, Tomorrow

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• The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Vision, World, Tomorrow

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• Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Iraq

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• Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Feel Good, Soul

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• Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Poet, Danger

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Riches, Gains

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• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

  William Cowper

  Care, Tomorrow

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• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Suffering

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

  Diane Ackerman

  Vices, Drink, Wells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.171, Vintage

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• It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Solitude, Wish

  Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books

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• A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Feelings, Mountain, Wonder

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• If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Suits You, Tree

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