These Days Quotes

• I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Music, Peace, Military

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Library, Collections

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

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• These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, New York, Long

  "The dirty little secrets of Nora Ephron". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2009.

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• More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

  Dave Barry

  Packaging, Coming Out, Consumers

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Government

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Treasury of Humorous Quotations". Book by Evan Esar, p. 103, 1951.

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• One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

  Robert Byrd

  Family, Wall, Things In Life

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• Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

  John G. Lake

  Men, Thinking, May

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• People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Government

  TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959.

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• I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Believe

  Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959

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• Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

  Bob Hope

  Mcdonalds, Buns, Six

  "Bob Hope's Joke Vault Endures", www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2003.

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• I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Grace, Church

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• Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Book, Guy, Cost

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• You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.

  Bobby Flay

  Tattoo, Thinking, People

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• Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

  Alex Lifeson

  Rocks, Rock Music, Fragmented

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• Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

  Tommy Lee

  Littles, Responsible

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• There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

  Tommy Lee

  Stars, Dad, Rocks

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• I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

  Yoko Shimomura

  Teacher, Talking, Games

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• Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.

  Gerald Edelman

  Thinking, Cells, Essence

  "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

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• Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

  Joe Klein

  Play, Sick, Citizens

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• Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teenager, Pigs

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• Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lasts, Live Every Day

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Years, Taught

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