Quotes with born-yesterday

Quotes 181 till 200 of 490.

  • Robert Hewison If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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  • Bob Taft If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Lou Holtz If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Joyce Chapman If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
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  • Frank Dane Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Burton Richter In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Cat Stevens In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • V. S. Pritchett In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Jean Rostand In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bjork In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Herodotus In soft regions are born soft men.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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