Quotes with present-day

Quotes 301 till 320 of 1406.

  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Susan Sontag Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bret Harte Fades the light, And afar Goeth day, cometh night, And a star Leadeth all Speedeth all To their rest.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Jim Rohn Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jim Rohn Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Adrienne Rich False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Dale Carnegie Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bobby Bowden Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Boman Irani For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bo Burnham For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Frederick W. Faber For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Hubert Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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