All Quotes

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
‐‐ Joan Armatrading

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
‐‐ Hank Stram

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
‐‐ Della Reese

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
‐‐ Fanny Kemble

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
‐‐ Juan Williams

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
‐‐ Bil Keane

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
‐‐ David Letterman

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull

Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
‐‐ Jon Stewart

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
‐‐ Jacques Lacan

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.
‐‐ David R. Brower

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
‐‐ Timothy Garton Ash

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
‐‐ David Fincher

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
‐‐ Randy West

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
‐‐ Dawn Powell

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
‐‐ John Calvin

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
‐‐ James Branch Cabell

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
‐‐ Dan Lipinski

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
‐‐ Flavius Josephus

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
‐‐ Samuel E. Morison

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
‐‐ Norman Borlaug

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
‐‐ John Hales

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
‐‐ Herman Melville

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
‐‐ Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.
‐‐ Richard King

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
‐‐ Judith Light

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
‐‐ Boris Kodjoe

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
‐‐ Alice Cooper

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus