“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Chance, Act IV (1686).
Speech at Yaser Arafat International Airport (19 August 2005)
“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Chance, Act IV (1686).
“If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: Russell Ackoff " Russell Ackoff: A Lifetime of Systems Thinking; Editor’s note http://www.pegasuscom.com/levpoints/ackoff_a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking.html" in: Leverage Points, Issue 115. <br class="br">1990s and attributed
“What we do today, is what we get tomorrow”
Nelson Itodo (2001) Nigerian Entrepreneur
Source: https://twitter.com/nelsonitodo/status/1406659876693098496?s=19
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Incidentals (1904)
Context: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.
“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist