Today Quotes - Page 70

I was different from most young conductors today.

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior. Today, the industry bears little resemblance to the one I joined 30 years ago, which is what's so exciting about it. But the one thing that hasn't changed is the notion that a successful business model is one that has the ability to respond positively to the unexpected shifts in the winds as they continue to present themselves.

The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!