Present Day Quotes

151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change… — Gustav Stresemann
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of… — Iris Murdoch
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .… — Freeman Dyson
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I… — Fabian Perez
I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more #â€Ž romantic than the present day — Fabian Perez
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that… — Charles Caleb Colton
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so… — Gregg Easterbrook
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung… — Louis Sullivan
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and… — Gustav Stresemann
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It… — Sebastian Thrun
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management… — Lawrence Wright
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII

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