Present Day Quotes

151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope. — William Wordsworth
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between… — Eugenio Montale
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day… — Wilfred Burchett
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations… — Jethro Tull
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.… — Charles Darwin
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with… — Justin Halpern
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace.… — John McCain
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human… — Charles Kimball
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our… — Edward Teller
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not… — Ludwig von Mises
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the… — Patricia Highsmith
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve… — Thomas Aquinas
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to… — Marcus Garvey
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so… — Edward Bach
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value… — Evelyn Waugh
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution… — Evan Davis
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies… — Benjamin Disraeli
Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. — Mary Douglas
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other… — Havelock Ellis
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. — William Law
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current… — Anne Sullivan Macy

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