Quotes with present-day

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1406.

  • Bob Ainsworth We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller We talk about fate as if it were something visited upon us; we forget that we create our fate every day we live.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Banville We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Betty Williams We want to live, love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors day in and day out to create this peaceful society.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • William Shakespeare We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bonnie Tyler We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Cecil Day Lewis We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
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  • Ronald Reagan 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
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Andy Wachowski We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
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  • Bud Grant Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Alan Cohen What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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