Today Quotes - Page 144

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.