Quotes about today

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“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”

“This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight… one, from… here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.”

“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”

“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.”

“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”

“If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.”

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”

“I am not afraid of tomorrow
for I have seen yesterday
and I love today”

“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

“I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.”

“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”

“How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm”

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.”

“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”

“How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?”

“Today….. I begin a new life".”

“Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.”

“Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.”

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”

“Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.”

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

“It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”

“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

“Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.”

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

“But today I’m all medulla oblongata and I can’t concentrate.”

“The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.”

“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.

~Jessop”

“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”

“Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.”

“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”

“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.”

“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.”

“Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.”

“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours”

“One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

“If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?”

“Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.”

“Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.”

“Health makes good propaganda. “'Proof' that women's activities outside the home are detrimental to the health and welfare of themselves, their families and the country as a whole” lent impetus, writes Ann Oakley, to the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity. The ovaries were seen as collective property rather than the woman's own business, as the face and body outline are seen today. Who can argue with health?”

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

“I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.”

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”

“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”

“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”

“For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.”

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today.”

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”

“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”

“Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.”

“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”

“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“I urge you all today, especially today in these times of terrorism and chaos to love yourselves without reservation and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather; then by all means, use restraints.”

“Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.”

“Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.”

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”

“Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.”

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”

“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien… What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”

“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

“Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.”

“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”

“All a poet can do today is warn.”

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.”

“For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing… the final tipping balance.”

“Today, I demand that a film express either theor the. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”

“And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”

“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

“But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.”