Present Day Quotes

151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. — Johann Most
I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality. — Christina Ricci
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are… — Haruki Murakami
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill… — Richard Dawkins
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… — Muriel Barbery
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially… — Marcel Proust
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful… — Jennifer Egan
How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief… — Brandon Sanderson
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what… — Marilyn Manson
We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or… — Unknown Author
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day. — LiliÊ»uokalani
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a… — Charles Darwin
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world.… — Jim C. Hines
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader… — George Pierce Baker
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to… — Andrew Wiles
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Be intent on the perfection of the present day. — William Law
I then asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I have felt that at the present day we are actually limiting… — Cecil Rhodes
At the present day I become a member of the Masonic order I see the wealth and power they possess the influence they hold and… — Cecil Rhodes
The question is now in this day, are we taking the vows of marriage so far, to the point it is actually destroying the marriage,… — Merle Rutledge Jr
It is unusual to say: This day is the worst day ever is wrong is not bad! Only your past deeds are the result of… — Mak_786
People today get bored of everything very easily, their mobile, their close ones, their partner, their job, their career, their car, their life in general.… — Ritu Ghatourey

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