Today Quotes

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

~ Ayelet Waldman

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had.

~ Alden Ehrenreich

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

~ Patti Stanger

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

~ Kendrick Lamar

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

~ Keith Henson

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'

~ James Fenton

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

~ Harry A. Blackmun

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

~ Robert Kennedy

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

~ Peter Abrahams

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

~ Roberta Flack

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

~ Ricky Williams

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

~ Phil Crosby

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

~ Albert Ellis

We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.

~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

~ Isaac Asimov

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

~ Janet Napolitano

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

~ Christopher Alexander

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

~ Cyril Connolly

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

~ Sarah Drew

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

~ Loni Love

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

~ Phoebe Cary

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

~ Suzy Bogguss

Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.

~ Perry Como

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

~ Mitt Romney

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

~ Lev Vygotsky

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

~ Ken Wilber

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

~ John Dryden

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

~ Noam Chomsky

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

~ Marsha Blackburn

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

~ Issey Miyake

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

~ Daniel Goleman

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

~ Jared Diamond

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

~ Matt Gonzalez

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

~ Olympia Snowe

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

~ Jinato Hu

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

~ Olusegun Obasanjo

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.

~ Antonin Scalia

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

~ Ajay Devgan