Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.
~By Paul Darrow ~
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
~By Natalia Ginzburg ~
I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
~By John Bracken ~
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
~By Joe Baca ~
We are coming back just four years from today.
~By Frances Cleveland ~
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
~By Murray Walker ~
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
~By George Wald ~
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
~By Amy Grant ~
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
~By Chin-Ning Chu ~
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.
~By Francis Maude ~
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~By Hans Kung ~
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
~By Avi Arad ~
Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
~By Russell Pearce ~
Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
~By Frank Knox ~
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
~By Wolfman Jack ~
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
~By James Joyce ~
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!
~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
~By Ken Wilber ~
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
~By Warren Farrell ~
Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.
~By Dick Smothers ~
It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
~By Jack Kilby ~
Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
~By Dick Cheney ~
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
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.
~By Walter Lord ~
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
~By Brit Hume ~
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
~By Jean Rostand ~
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
~By Joel Osteen ~
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
~By Oliver Hudson ~
If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
~By Ruth Gordon ~
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.
~By Francis Maude ~
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
~By Kelly Lynch ~
Today is yesterday's pupil.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
~By Ted Stevens ~
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
~By James Hillman ~
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
~By Lee Scott ~
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
~By Glenn Ford ~
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.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
~By Jack Valenti ~
Everybody is talking today about the economy.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.
~By Gregory Peck ~
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
~By Li Peng ~
All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
~By Linda Fiorentino ~
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~By Edward Koch ~
I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
~By Ike Turner ~
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
~By Pete Townshend ~
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
~By Tony Blair ~
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
~By Norma Shearer ~
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
~By Charles Peguy ~
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
~By Norman Cousins ~
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
~By Tommy Cooper ~
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
~By Bill Shuster ~
I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!
~By Lonnie Earl Johnson ~
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
~By Orville Wright ~
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
~By Irene Dunne ~
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
~By Robert Toombs ~
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
~By Mikhail Khodorkovsky ~
I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
~By Jasper Carrott ~
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
~By Ilya Ehrenburg ~
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.
~By Wim Wenders ~
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
~By Sean Lennon ~
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