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“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.”
Gabe Newell (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow's some kind of Strangerland where all the news is good.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If somebody invented a magic bullet tomorrow that would somehow eliminate racial IQ disparities among all babies born from now on, measurable (though diminishing) gaps in the total population would still exist until everybody alive today is dead in the 22nd century.”
Steve Sailer (born 1958) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crimethink and Thinking Ability, Taki's Magazine, January 30, 2012
“O that we would therefore, while we are on this side of the grave, make our peace with God! Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you admit your wildest dream & uncover why you want it, you have a big key to make tomorrow a better day.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 May 2010
“If I woke up tomorrow morning and it was just a dream, it would be the best dream I've ever had, and I would be ― I would not be happy to be waking up! [laughter]”
Leona Lewis (born 1985) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Xtra Factor: Winner's Story 2006
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to 1932 Modern Library edition of Three Soldiers
“I have heard that tomorrow they are to execute the two prisoners, the accomplices of him who shot me. For my part, I most willingly pardon them. If they are thought deserving of a signal and severe penalty, I beg the magistrates not to put them to torture, but to give them a speedy death, if they have merited this. Good-night!”
William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Words are such thin shavings of the fractal fruit, tiny scraping of the skin that holds these joyously determined swirls of history inside their juicy turbulence. Talking itself westward after the day's feast, each little word with its meaning strapped to its back falls down the swell of tomorrow like a hiker with hopeful new shoes.”
Karen Press (born 1956) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Purposefully peeling footsteps (Home, 2000)
“Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live; and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Elizabeth Partridge (1994)
“The more your son wishes to be part of the elite, the more he will abhor being pitied. Yet boys who join the elite today are often the ones who are pitied tomorrow.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you notice this human body? Today it is and tomorrow it is not. And the world is full of misery and pain. Why should one be eager to have another birth? The body is never free from its attendant troubles.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never talk ill of anybody, be he a devotee, a monk, or an ordinary householder, nor despise any for a wrong act. After all, everyone is a child of the Lord. Who knows today's sinning will not make him a saint tomorrow? Other acts do not count so much as a moment's of love for the Lord. Blessed is he who has loved Him even for a moment. Saint or sinner, the Lord loves all.”
Swami Adbhutananda (died 1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spring of 1970; referring to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam – as quoted in Lloyd Alexander (1991) by Jill P. May, p. 10
“If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.”
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
Jim Butcher (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Christianity of tomorrow will embrace all truth wherever it is found or however men have come to apprehend it, whether through specifically Christian teaching or through Buddhism or Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism or even through the bleak desert of apparent atheism.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unable to see further than tomorrow.”
J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the people who are hating me right now and are here waiting to see me die, when you wake up in the morning you aren't going to feel any different. You are going to hate me as much tomorrow as you do tonight. Reach out to God and he will hear you. Let him touch your hearts. Don't hate all your lives.”
Sean Sellers (1969–1999) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Final statement before his execution (5 February 1999), quoted in "Man Who Killed 3 as Teen Is Among Pair Executed" in Los Angeles Times (5 February 1999).
“Any unwillingness to learn mathematics today can greatly restrict your possibilities tomorrow.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the 2007 Nigerian Elections - "Selfless Service" Modern Ghana (May 28 2009)
“Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Encouraging The SCOAN congregation following the fulfillment of his prophecy about the death of Michael Jackson - "Prophet TB Joshua Predicted The Death Of Michael Jackson" Africa News (June 29, 2009)
“We need a reserve of life, every kind of life,” he explained. “Today for the spirit—a glimpse of space and green. Tomorrow for survival, flat-out survival.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we legalised this state of lawlessness, then all those who are exposed to lawlessness are endangered. Today it is the Serbs and Montenegrins that suffer most from that, but tomorrow this could be the Albanians, too, and that is why, unless law and order is introduced and respected in the broader social and historical sense, this will be the interest of all of the inhabitants of Kosovo.”
Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Governments which live in fear of tomorrow's headline are incapable of any change.”
Tony Abbott (born 1957) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First speech of Tony Abbott to Australian Parliament, 1994.
“You are invited to come to see the Earth turn, tomorrow, from three to five, at Meridian Hall of the Paris Observatory.”
Léon Foucault (1819–1868) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Invitation cards which he sent out to the scientists of Paris, to witness his famous pendulum experiment on 3 February 1851, as quoted in Pendulum : Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science (2003) by Amir D. Aczel
“Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.”
Yoko Ono (born 1933) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Never Say Goodbye" on It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).
“you don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow”
“Here are a few questions to stir your vision: Why does your organization exist? What can your organization be the best in the world at? If you could do only one thing, what would it be? If you left your organization tomorrow, what would you hope would continue forever? What breaks your heart, keeps you awake at night, wrecks you?”
Craig Groeschel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do you get when you fall in love? You only get lies and pain and sorrow So, for at least, until tomorrow I'll never fall in love again”
Hal David (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sing, sweet nightingale, Sing me a song of a night never-ending, Sing, sweet nightingale, And I'll try to pretend That tomorrow's nowhere near And there's nothing to fear.”
Tom Springfield (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all. But if I should lose your love, dear, I don't know what I'd do, For I know I'll never find another you.”
Tom Springfield (1934–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] if we were to find ourselves with a single religion tomorrow, it is likely that there would be two the day after.”
Huston Smith (1919–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.”
Martin Firrell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are already scientists-- respected scientists in this country who do experiments on things that most people consider supernatural, such as prayer. When Newton proposed the theory of gravitation it was dismissed as supernaturalism because it was action at a distance. What constitutes supernaturalism in today's science may very well not be supernatural in tomorrow's science.”
Jonathan Wells (1942–2024) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wells testimony, Kansas evolution hearings, 2005.
“I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in memory, see them again in my mind's eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all, I must make good use of them in tomorrow's life.”
Thomas Anthony Dooley III (1927–1961) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deliver Us From Evil (1956); recounting Dooley's life-changing experience in 1954, while in the Navy and stationed in Vietnam evacuating anti-Communist refugees, observing the misery of the people.
“[T]hat the Jew, thanks to Ezekiel, is the teacher of all intolerance, of all fanaticism in faith, and of all murder for the sake of religion; that he only appealed to toleration where he felt himself oppressed, that he himself, on the other hand, never practised it nor dared to practise it, for his law forbade it as it forbids it today and will forbid it tomorrow.”
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The future is never Never comes tomorrow Never is not”
Sun Ra (1914–1993) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tomorrow is Never" (1972), p. 252
“I know it's late, I know you're weary I know your plans don't include me Still here we are, both of us lonely Longing for shelter from all that we see Why should we worry, no one will care girl Look at the stars so far away We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow? We've got tonight babe, Why don't you stay?”
“I would rather pass by the statue of Cervantes by car today than let my children cross by mine on foot tomorrow.”
Pedro Muñoz Seca (1879–1936) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said in 1923 when he was criticized by several writers due to the light style of his nonetheless extremely popular plays.
“I was hoping Could you be my inspiration Whatever should become In the candlelight? I was dreaming Was it my imagination? Tomorrow never comes In the candlelight”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know it's not too late to leave tomorrow, 'cause I know where I'm going... I am building a bridge to Paradise!”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are tired of war. We are tired of running. We are tired of begging for bulgur wheat. We are tired of our children being raped. We are now taking this stand, to secure the future of our children. Because we believe, as custodians of society, tomorrow our children will ask us, "Mama, what was your role during the crisis”
Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gbowee, Leymah; Mithers, Carol (2011). Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir. New York: Beast Books. ISBN 978-0-9842951-5-9. OCLC 751747258
“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm The final lines are barely audible. Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I said, ‘I'll change tomorrow if that's okay, I just didn't even realize it today,’ but they said, ‘Well, you have to change now,’ and, well, at that point it became, you know, a bit of a matter of principle for me. [...] And yeah, so here we are.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source