These Days Quotes - Page 24

• My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Jobs, Skills, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.

  Matt Cameron

  Thinking, Talking, Important

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• One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

  Adrian Rogers

  Giving, Justice, Dams

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• I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Lasts

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• In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

  Frank Capra

  War, Struggle, Rumor

  "Lost Horizon". Book Pages (first lines), www.imdb.com. February 18, 1937.

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• It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Kill Me, Justification, Clinicals

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

  Tim Krabbe

  Wish, Use, Few Friends

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• The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

  Mark Frost

  Ideas, Icons, Superhero

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• These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.

  Himanshu Suri

  Worry, Bank Accounts, Brag

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• We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

  Alexander Kluge

  Book, Writing, Television

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• In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

  Harvey Cushing

  Waiting, Pace, Disease

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Witty, Clever, Writing

  "Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book". www.wired.com. October 25, 2014.

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• Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

  Chuck D

  Reality, Hard Times, People

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• That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Moving, Rooms

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Let the Old Dreams Die”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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• Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Kids, Shoes, Ties

  "Spoiled Rotten". www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2012.

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• From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Spiritual, Winter

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

  Justus von Liebig

  Advice, Want, Ruins

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• Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.

  Angela Merkel

  Powerful, Women, Believe

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• Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Autumn, Lovely

  Song: All Too Well, Album: Red, 2012

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• My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

  Roger Daltrey

  Pain, Band, Changed

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• We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

  William James

  Prayer, Science, Simple

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• Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.232, Best Books on

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• The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Tree, Desire

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.

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• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

  Thomas Frank

  Focus, Computer, Internet

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