Today Quotes

I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

~ Herbie Hancock

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

~ Billy Graham

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

~ André Gide

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

~ Carre Otis

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

~ Tommy Cooper

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

~ Katie Mcgrath

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

~ Elizabeth Meriwether

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

~ Walter Lord

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

~ Cyril Connolly

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

~ Peter Jackson

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

~ J. G. Ballard

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

~ J. G. Ballard

We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

~ Mark Billingham

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

~ Theodor Adorno

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

~ Andrew Wyeth

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

~ Thomas Sowell

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

~ Hillary Clinton

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

~ William O. Douglas

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

~ Zell Miller

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

~ P. J. O'rourke

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

~ David Horsey

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

~ Marianne Williamson

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

~ Grover Norquist

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

~ Jonathan Sacks

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

~ H. Rap Brown

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

~ Billy Bragg

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

~ N. T. Wright

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

~ Pete Best

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

~ Ben Whishaw

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

~ Ted Kulongoski

One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

~ Laura Amy Schlitz

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

~ E. B. White

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

~ Marco Rubio

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

~ Juan Williams