Present Day Quotes

151 Present Day quotes by 131 unique authors

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
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. Iâ€™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

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