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“Before the all-around competition, I was just praying to God and saying, 'Thank you for all, God, No matter what happens tomorrow I'm still going to be with you. Win or lose I'm still going to bless you and I'm still going to give you all the glory because you brought me here.”
Gabby Douglas (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am ready to break the world record tomorrow, I will need a pace of between 67 and 68 seconds (per lap); that would be perfect. My only fear is about the weather. If it is too warm it will be difficult.”
Almaz Ayana (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But it will be easier with Genzebe in the race because it is always hard to fight alone. Tomorrow we will try together.”
Almaz Ayana (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My only goal is to be in the lead and to go fast, I prefer to lead and always go to the front of the pack. That’s how I want to run tomorrow.”
Almaz Ayana (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of a better tomorrow. And that is what motivates me that my best days are yet to come.”
Robert Ebersohn (born 1989) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The best is yet to come for Robert Ebersohn,May 2023,GetItMag by
“Had I been my usual self I would have easily clocked 3:31 because I am in great shape both physically and mentally. The birth of Hiba was like winning the most prestigious medal in the most important meeting but now I want to think about tomorrow. I want to think about the future and what it holds for me.”
Hicham El Guerrouj (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sadly, It seems #WifeMaterial2 was never meant to happen, but we can still say it happened in away, actually twice. The show was to begin tomorrow as has been heavily advertised but unfortunately that won't be so.”
Gigy Money (born 1998) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gigy Money lectures Eric Omondi after Cancelling Wife Material 2 (Screenshot);By Dennis Milimo on 24 May 2021
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk. Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and, what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”
Winston Churchill (disputed) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Churchill's bodyguard Ronald Golding claims that he witnessed Churchill say this in 1946 to Labour MP w:Bessie Braddock. Golding's claim, made to Churchill expert Richard Langworth, was reported in Langworth's collectio…
“It is perhaps well enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Henry Ford (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.”
John F. Kennedy (attributed) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Remarkable Kennedys, Joe McCarthy, New York: Dial Press, 1960, page 114.
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
Edward Young (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi (disputed) first seen 1175 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The aphorism "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow" is variously attributed to Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636), in FPA Book of Quotations (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams, to Edmund…
“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today ...... It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
Charles M. Schulz (misattributed) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Came from an online quiz falsely attributed to Schulz. However, in the 13 June 1980 Peanuts strip, Marcie does say "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir. In fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia.
“Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would continue to plant my apple trees.”
Martin Luther (disputed) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Earliest record is in a circular letter from Hessian Church minister Karl Lotz on 5 October 1944 and modified from a quote by Johanan ben Zakai according to
“Today is fair. Tomorrow may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change.”
Chief Seattle (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know we don't have any guarantee that we're gonna live tomorrow. That's why I live everyday as it was my last.”
Melanie Thornton (attributed) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One of her last interviews before her death in a plane crash on November 24, 2001.
“Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.”
Alvin Toffler (misattributed) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy, as quoted by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970), Ch. 18, p. 414
“Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better.”
Tibullus (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
Maria Mitchell (attributed) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Book of Positive Quotations By John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson (2nd ed. 2007), p. 283.
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln (misattributed) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Vernon K. McLellan (2000) Wise Words and Quotes
“The tricolour flag, symbol of revolution, was raised on the cathedral's towers and the bells rang to the frantic acclamation of the crowd. "Listen to the tocsin! We are triumphing" remarked the Prince de Talleyrand gleefully: "Who are we?" he was asked: "Quiet! Not a word. I will tell you tomorrow" was the reply.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (attributed) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in H. A. C. Collingham, R. S. Alexander, The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830-1848 (1988), p. 9
“There has never been a tomorrow in my life – it has always been today that counts.”
Naomi Jacobson first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Naomi Jacobson's reflections on art and life. Jewish Affairs, Rosh Hashanah 2012.
“In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.”
Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) said by 1594 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than “time.” Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future.”
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hermann Weyl and the Unity of Knowledge", American Scientist (July-August 1986) Vol. 74, pp. 366-375. Reprinted in At Home in the Universe (1993), p. 171.
“Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.”
William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Robert Percival Graves' "Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton" (3 volumes, 1882, 1885, 1889))
“It's time to stop just talking, it's time to stop just intending, it's time for action; it's time to shut-up and say something!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”
Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then time ran out—no. Time ran on. There was no end to time. But you come to the end of yourself, and time runs on, and leaves you.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line...Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of Mad Dog Time (29 November 1996)
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.”
Nico (1938–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her response when asked about her sense of rhythm in songwriting, as quoted in Life and Lies of an Icon (1995) by Richard Witts.
“Never gonna fall for Modern love — walks beside me. Modern love — walks on by. Modern love — gets me to the church on time. Church on time — terrifies me. Church on time — makes me party. Church on time — puts my trust in God and man. God and man — no confessions. God and man — no religion. God and man — don't believe in modern love.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seem like the more fame, I only got wilder Hands up, we just doing what the cops taught us I've been outta my mind a long time I've been outta my mind a long time I be saying how I feel at the wrong time Might not come when you want but I'm on time. Name one genius that ain't crazy.”
Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roland the headless Thompson gunner, Norway's bravest son. Time, time, time For another peaceful war. But time stands still for Roland 'Til he evens up the score. They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun; In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun.”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm very good at streamlining a series of activities so that everything gets done in the amount of time that I have. I am very good with the clock. Like if I have a lot of stuff to do and a limited amount of time, I'm very good at figuring it all out. I'm very efficient in everything that i do, I never waste time so that I have more time to waste.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given time-time not in years but in millennia-life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren’t, when we never have. We’ve just been moving along with time. We said, there’s another second gone, there’s another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”
Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?" The bear shuffled its alternatives. "Real things are good." "I wonder if time is good. I don't think Mummy likes time very much. The other day, lots of days ago, she said that time went by her. Is time real, Teddy?”
Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time passes—Time the consoler—Time the anodyne—Time the grey calm satirist, whose sad smile seems to say, Look, O man, at the vanity of the objects you pursue, and of yourself who pursue them!”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If victory is not theirs this time, it will be the next time. And if not the next time, then the time after that... The important thing is to get back on your feet. Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing. It's time to move on, it' s time to get going.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So now I'm praying for the end of time To hurry up and arrive Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you I don't think that I can really survive. I'll never break my promise or forget my vow But God only knows what I can do right now. I'm praying for the end of time It's all that I can do Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!”
Jim Steinman (1947–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 60s for me was a time of promise and excitement, but the 60s was also a time of isolation and frustration from within. [...] It was a time of great hope and great expectation; it was also a time of great waste. That is history. We do not need to repeat these mistakes in the 80s.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After all, we are always on time, behind time, in time, but never out of time, no matter how often we are told that we are.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 73 (Vintage 2003)
“Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life.”
Billy Connolly (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source