Do Today Quotes

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
- Isabelle Adjani

The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepared,
I will manage with the rest.
I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again...
But how. The hot summer rustles
Like a carnival outside my window;
I have long had this premonition
Of a bright day and a deserted house.
- Anna Akhmatova

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
- Ernest Hemingway

Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?'
Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
- Alexandre Dumas

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson

You're right. This is a lot. I faced him. I thought that you were normal. And you're not. You're telling me that I have the DOD gunning for me. That if I ever decide to leave this place, I'm going to be a Snack Pack for an Arum. And better yet, I am going to lose complete control over whatever powers I have and wipe out a family of four, then be put down! All I wanted to do today was eat some god damn fries and be normal!
- Jennifer L Armentrout

Don't you have class today? (Kyrian)
Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick)
(He cleared his throat and dropped the thick Cajun accent.)
And no, today's registration. I've got to figure out what I'm taking next semester. (Nick)
I have a few things I need you to do today. (Kyrian)
And that is different from any other day how? (Nick)
Sarcasm, thy name is Nick Gautier. (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
- Nicholas Brendon

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
- Marshall Mcluhan

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.
- Graham Brown

The future depends on what you do today.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
- Aaron Burr

Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?'
Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?
- Voltaire

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Philip Stanhope

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield

The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It's not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today. - Publisher Weekly
- Susane Colasanti

What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.
- Santosh Kalwar

The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
- Kurt Vonnegut

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Charles Dickens

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
- Sam Donaldson

The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
- Jim Doyle

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.
- Roger Federer

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
- Ann Marie Frohoff

I came here to be for all and with all,
and what I do today in my solitude
will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.
What I say now with one heart
will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..
- Kahlil Gibran

There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
- Teri Garr

What will you do now?'
I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'
No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?'
Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.
- David Gemmell

Today I could like anybody," said Rek, smiling. "The sky is clear, the wind is fresh, and life tastes very fine. What will you do now?"
"I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works."
"No," said Rek. "I mean, what will you do today?"
"Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring," said Bowman.
- David Gemmell

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
- Robin Gibb

Friends of yours, eh?" I think one of them's about to faint." Oh, my god. "That's Chloe Dale," I said without turning arouind. "She suffers from high oestrogen levels. I can introduce you if you like."
Gideon's smile grew wilder. "Maybe I'll take you up on that some other time. Now, come on. We still have a lot to do today." He took my arm (a loud squel could be heard from the steps and guided me towards the limousine.
- Kerstin Gier

Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
- Vince Gill

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.
- Mira Grant

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What do you want to do today?" you say, "I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters," but you don't say, "I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper
- Mark Haddon

Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?
- Tom Hardy

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.
- Dennis Hastert

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
- Doc Hastings

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.
- Francois Hollande

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
- Wanda Jackson

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
- Wanda Jackson

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Steve Jobs

To Do Today, 1/17/08
1. Sit and think
2. Reach enlightenment
3. Feed the cats
- Jarod Kintz

Dreams are necessary. Like the air, without realizing it, I, you, and we all need dreams. The dreams that guide us on what we do today because today is the answer to our dreams the other day.
- Alanda Kariza

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
- Martin Luther

If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?
- Tite Kubo

He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking "What are we going to do today?" not asking "Who are you going to do today?
- Aimee Lane

- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -
(The Tin Star)
- J L Langley

It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.
- Avril Lavigne

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
- Ralph Marston

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
- John C Maxwell

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
- Michael Mccaul

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
- William Osler

All a poet can do today is warn.
- Wilfred Owen

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
- Buck Owens

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.
- Randy Pausch

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
- Guy Pearce

Ben Says: A small step each day leads to bigresults in your life. What you do today can better you tomorrow.
- Timothy Pina

All that we do today...will help change humanity for the better...tomorrow!
- Timothy Pina

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'
- Mary Lynn Rajskub

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
- Leonard Ravenhill

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
- Dinah Shore

All I've got to do today is smile.
- Paul Simon

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
- Alexandra Stoddard

Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.
- Ned Vizzini