Today Quotes - Page 31

• Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Patient, Written

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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• I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

  David Letterman

  Central Park, Robins, Sparrows

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• They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.

  David Letterman

  White, Fake, House

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• If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

  Evan Esar

  Yesterday, People, Effort

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• There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

  Richard Mitchell

  Education, Sex, Children

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• Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Ideas, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.574, Library of America

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• It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?

  William Powell

  Men, Want, Revolution

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.

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• We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Names, Yesterday, Judging

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• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Truth, Errors, Essence

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.

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• Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.

  Ernest Holmes

  Hope, Giving, Feelings

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• 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

  Heart, Hands, Mountain

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.

  Sharon G. Larsen

  Children, Blessed, Responsibility

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• It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to his promises; I was free, and I was smiling joyfully on a manure wagon. As we ambled along, I laughed to myself when I thought of God's sense of humor in delivering us that way. Even today, the smell of manure reminds me of freedom.

  Diet Eman

  Smell, Faithful, Promise

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• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Grieving, Egypt

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• Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

  Martin Gore

  Kids, Vinyl, Knows

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• Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

  Eric Liu

  Sports, Athlete, Nba

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• It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

  Hugh Prather

  Lying, Tomorrow, Truth Is

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• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• [T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Practice, Tasks

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “The holy family”, p.148, Рипол Классик

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• If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Long, People, Tangled

  "The Light of Other Days". Book by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, April 16, 2000.

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• What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Preparation, Answers

  "Barbary Shore". Book by Norman Mailer, 1951.

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• See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

  William Dean Howells

  Confusion, Achievement, Tomorrow

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9151, Delphi Classics

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• I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Speak, Tobacco

  "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• Today Google celebrated its 13th anniversary.... That's right, Google turned 13 years old. Which explains why today when I searched for something, Google was just like, "I don't know. Stop asking me questions! I'm going upstairs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Google, Asking

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• Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Communication, Army

  "Il costume di casa" (1973); as translated in "Travels in Hyperreality" (1986),

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