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“I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.”
Kris Kristofferson (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past... so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Epifanio de los Santos by Fernando Bernardo. Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos. Anvil Publishing, Inc.(2000). p. 37–38.
“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.”
Dan Aykroyd (born 1952) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "I'm still haunted by Belushi" by Sean O'Hagan in The Observer (28 September 2003)
“The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow is waiting to reveal itself depending on the actions of just one day... TODAY!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are you leaving evidence that you appreciate today or are you only leaving evidence that you are scared of tomorrow?”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can give your confession tomorrow, if you find a priest dumb enough to believe, because it only hurts when I breathe.”
Tod A (born 1965) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It Only Hurts When I Breathe", Release (1994).
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newspaper interview (1902), when asked what qualities a politician required, Halle, Kay, Irrepressible Churchill. Cleveland: World, 1966. cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 489
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught, but I shall not attempt to foreshadow the proposals which will be brought before the House tomorrow. Today it will be sufficient and appropriate to deal with the obvious difficulties and confusion of the situation as we found it on taking office.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In debate in the House of Commons, 4 Nov 1952
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
Aesop (620–564 BC) said by 564 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have despoiled Churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticized every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform tomorrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1873)
“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.”
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opening Address to the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials (10 November 1945)
“Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back! ... That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention (August 17, 1988)
“We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
Dan Quayle (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?”
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prejudices, Fourth Series (1924)
“If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.”
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The American Mercury (March 1936) - referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“We must protect the dollar from the attacks of international money speculators. ... I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the American dollar [for gold] ... Let me lay to rest the bugaboo of what is called devaluation. ... Your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Challenge of Peace: Nixon's televised address imposing a new economic policy (August 15, 1971), which ended the Bretton Woods monetary system, and initiated the "Nixon shock".
“So, André Breton, if tonight I dream I am screwing you, tomorrow morning I will paint all of our best fucking positions with the greatest wealth of detail.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, early 1930's; as quoted by Jonathan Jones in his article 'André in wonderland'; The Guardian / Culture, 16 June, 2004
“If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie [robot QT-1] has his.” “Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.” Powell sighed wearily. “That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumptions and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. ...”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction April 1941, p. 43
“It's memorial day tomorrow here in the US, but like the USPS, "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" - nor memorial day - stops the merge window.”
Linus Torvalds (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“I believe we still are. And because I believe in you, I believe we will be tomorrow. God bless America, and thank you very much.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard core unemployed.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: President JOHN F. KENNEDY, statement on the need for training or rehabilitation of Selective Service rejectees" (30 September 1963); also: John F. Kennedy: "Statement by the President on the Need for Training or Rehabil…
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. And though I am but a clown, or a bumpkin, as you may say, yet I would have you to know I know what is what, and have always taken care of the main chance...”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sancho to Don Quixote, in Ch. 9, (tr. Peter Anthony Motteux, 1701).
“Tomorrow will be a new day.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
“I know not what tomorrow will bring”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last sentence (29 November 1935), quoted in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)
Also quoted by: Φερνάντο Πεσσόα (el)
“A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
Neil Gaiman (born 1960) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: somewhat less sinister ducks" Blog entry (23 April 2004)
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.”
Bob Dylan (born 1941) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview by Paul Zollo (1991)
“With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.”
Bob Dylan (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
Morris West (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
“Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.”
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear Sallie: I am very sorry you have a cold and you are in bed. I played with Mary today for a little while. I hope by tomorrow you will be able to be up. I am glad today [sic] that my cold is better. Your loving, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roosevelt's first letter, written at age five to his mother Sara Roosevelt ("Sallie") who had been ill in her room at Hyde Park. She later supplied the date - "1887" - on beginning her collection.
“What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow if Russia invades India, I would rather support Russia and get shot or jailed than to support India on patriotic grounds, not even a minute.”
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Viduthalai – 5.2.1966) (also )
“I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the 1960 World Series; as quoted in "We Flattened 'Em, Yet We're Only Tied'" by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 13, 1960), p. 35
“Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die – but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source