Quotes with present-day

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1406.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruno Mars What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Beth Henley What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Buddha What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Benny Andersson What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Robert Browning What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bonnie Bassler What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Burning Spear Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bojana Novakovic When 'Friday Night Lights' finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.
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  • Benjamin Mkapa When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
    At the United Nations 60th summit, 2005-09-16
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Jean Rostand When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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