Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Bill Murray

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Elliott Abrams

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

David Lee

Anything that ruins our sovereignty is out of the question.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Boman Irani

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.