Present Day Quotes
151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors
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Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the…
— Origen
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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
— Swami Vivekananda
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There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from…
— Adolf Hitler
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The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have…
— Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity
— Jillian Michaels
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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
— Gregg Easterbrook
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more…
— Eugene V. Debs
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of…
— Karl Marx
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Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life…
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
— Charles Darwin
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The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to…
— Charles Darwin
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The present day composer refuses to die.
— Edgard Varese
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An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
— Konrad Lorenz
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The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed…
— Andrew Jackson
Who Wrote These Present Day Quotes
131 authors contributed a total of 151 Present Day Quotes, led by these top contributors: