Today Quotes

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today"

"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong"

Ronald Reagan, President

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten"

John F. Kennedy, President

"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats"

John F. Kennedy, President

"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today"

Will Rogers, Actor

"There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today"

H.G. Wells, Author

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"

George Will, Journalist

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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