Today Quotes - Page 8

• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Tavis Smiley

  Thinking, Issues, Community

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• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  Ted Strickland

  Country, Jobs, Pride

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

  Richard Trumka

  People, Pay, Corporations

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• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Years, Class, America

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• In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

  Peter Thiel

  Growth, Stuff, Print

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• I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

  Ratan Tata

  Two, Car, Ferrari

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• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Facts, Minorities, Homeowners

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• Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

  Todd Tiahrt

  War, Believe, Trying

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• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

  Nice, Buttons, Sound

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• I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

  Bobby Vinton

  Dollars, Video, Records

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• Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

  Bobby Vinton

  Arena, Bigs, Stadiums

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• Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Communication, School, Technology

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• So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Husband, Focus

  "A Mother's Love". “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, www.oprah.com. April 20, 2005.

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• Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Kids, Media, Tvs

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• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Bjp, People, India

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• I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

  Loretta Young

  Believe, Yesterday And Today, Today Not Tomorrow

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• My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Husband

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• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

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• Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!

  John Assaraf

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Perfection

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jan 07, 2012

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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• Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day but must comply with sleep, I can whisper, "There was done a little good today. Today I changed myself and the world, just a little. And yes, I loved." Most days, that is enough.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sleep, Good Day, Tonight

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.89, Conari Press

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• Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Nick Lampson

  Believe, Men, Support

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