Quotations About / On: TOMORROW

  • 41.
    I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that's happened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.
    (Monica Seles (b. 1973), Yugoslavian tennis player; relocated to America. As quoted in Tennis magazine, p. 44 (March 1994). The former top-ranked woman singles tennis player in the world, she was reflecting on the experience of being stabbed a year earlier by Gunther Parche, a deranged fan of rival player Steffi Graf.)
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  • 42.
    Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.
    (E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm) Hoffmann (1776-1822), German author, composer. "Signor Formica," trans. by J.T. Bealby, The Best Tales of Hoffmann, p. 365, ed. E.F. Bleiler, Dover (1967). Hoffmann, as narrator, to his readers.)
    More quotations from: E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm) Hoffmann, tomorrow, today, change, sun
  • 43.
    Tomorrow in the offices the year on the stamps will be altered;
    Tomorrow new diaries consulted, new calendars stand;
    With such small adjustments life will again move forward
    Implicating us all; and the voice of the living be heard:
    "It is to us that you should turn your straying attention;
    Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune;
    Us you should love and to whom you should give your word."
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "New Year Poem.")
    More quotations from: Philip Larkin, tomorrow, love, life
  • 44.
    Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
    (Jane Rule (b. 1931), Canadian fiction writer and essayist; born in the U. S... Outlander, part 2, essay 10 (1981). Rule was a lesbian. Her assumption that a "tenth" of the population was gay or lesbian was widespread at the time, based largely on the famous Kinsey studies of sexuality. More recently, that percentage has been questioned as perhaps too high, especially if exclusive or almost exclusive homosexuality, rather than simply some homosexual activity, is the issue.)
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  • 45.
    The savages set up gods to which they pray, and which they punish if one of their prayers is not answered.... That is what is happening at this moment.... Yesterday Kerensky; today Lenin and Trotsky; another tomorrow.
    (Victor Mikhailovich Chernov (1873-1972), Russian socialist revolutionary. speech, Nov. 28, 1917, Peasants' Congress, Petrograd. Quoted in John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World, ch. 12 (1926).)
    More quotations from: Victor Mikhailovich Chernov, yesterday, tomorrow, today
  • 46.
    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.
    (Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933), Russian poet. Hunting a Hare, st. 5 (1964), trans. by W.H. Auden.)
    More quotations from: Andrei Voznesensky, howl, tomorrow, today
  • 47.
    Give me Catholicism every time. Father Cheeryble with his thurible; Father Chatterjee with his liturgy. What fun they have with all their charades and conundrums! If it weren't for the Christianity they insist on mixing in with it, I'd be converted tomorrow.
    (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Eustace Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 12 (1944). Eustace Barnack is a recurring type in Huxley's fiction. Like Henry Wimbush in Chrome Yellow, Jeremy Pordage in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, and Mustapha Mond in Brave New World, he appreciates the esthetics of culture but rejects its moral implications.)
    More quotations from: Aldous Huxley, father, fun, tomorrow, time
  • 48.
    These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. "I have 45 years." "But," said the justice, "you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago." "Señor Judge," she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, "I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!"
    (State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State (The WPA Guide to New Mexico), p. 320, Hastings House (1940). Anecdote from the Pueblo country.)
    More quotations from: State of New Mexico, justice, tomorrow, today, woman
  • 49.
    Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain and restless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.
    (Hortense Odlum (1892-?), U.S. businesswoman. A Woman's Place, ch. 14 (1939). When Odlum wrote this, the United States was just pulling out of the Great Depression.)
    More quotations from: Hortense Odlum, tomorrow, believe, people
  • 50.
    Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
    (Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946), British rock impresario. transcript of discussion, Sept. 24, 1988, New York City. "Punk and History," published in Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, ed. Russell Ferguson, et al. (1990).)
    More quotations from: Malcolm McLaren, tomorrow, culture, love, people

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