Today Quotes
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I am also incredibly proud of my party because today we have two strong woman candidates going to the country, we will have a women PM and it is the Conservative party yet again leading the way on this and it says to women all over the country you can get to the top.
Iain Duncan Smith
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The question of what we can do to give purpose or meaning to our lives has been debated for thousands of years by philosophers and common men. Yet today we seem, if anything, further from the answer than before. Despite our great material wealth and high standard of living, people are groping for something that money cannot buy.
Hyman G. Rickover
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When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.
Baratunde Thurston
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As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.
David Lauren
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The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.
Augusto Pinochet
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It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
John Scofield
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Toys today are more stereotyped than they were 20 years ago; the market is even more segmented. And they can go into their own kitchen anytime they want, for God's sake. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter because girls are doing everything anyway, even being soldiers.
Eleanor Smeal
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
Barbara Lee
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Do you know it was a year a ago today?
Jay London
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Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)
Neil Peart Rush
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
Ben Harper
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Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most...are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.
James Fenton
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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
Bill Vaughan
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We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.
Phil Anselmo Pantera
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Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.
Matthew Desmond
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Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.
Karl Marx
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When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.
Jean Kerr
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.
Cordell Hull
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Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.
Tom Harkin
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I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime (in Israel) soon be wiped out.'
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
Linda Fiorentino
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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
Barack Obama