Quotes with present-day

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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Traherne To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Carroll Quigley To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Carl Lewis To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bill Pascrell Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Bette Davis Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Billy Corgan Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long....
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Andrew Young Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Persius Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Bill Nelson Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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