#today

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#basic #causes #little #much #people

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#better #ever #funnier #our #shows

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits. ↗

— Tony Snow

#baby #baby boomers #benefits #boomers #by the time

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#business #even #longer #manner #operate

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#already #china #could #exclude #islamic

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#get #going #literate #read #teaching

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#art #compared #dates #fact #feel