A Quote by William V. Shannon

Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.

William V. Shannon

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Acceptable Capacity Compromise Experience First Human Human Capacity Impossible Ingenious Make Maneuver May Never Outrageous Politics Rule Say Seems Today Tomorrow

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William V. Shannon
August 24, 1927 - September 27, 1988

I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today.

Michael Beasley

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

J. A. Spender

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

Aaron Burr

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Aaron Burr

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Jonathan Shapiro

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Benjamin Franklin

As my grandma used to say, 'Between now and then, a pope could be born.' We never say what's going to happen tomorrow. We make the most of today.

Margaret Cuomo

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

B. J. Palmer

Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.

Owen D. Young

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

DeRay Mckesson

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

Jerry Spinelli

Politics has been a roller coaster, but I'll never look back and say, 'Why did I do it?' In fact, if my son decided to join politics tomorrow, he has my full and unconditional support.

Chiranjeevi

The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow! No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.