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“Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Nowadays there are so many stars on television.There are all these generic stars now.There's Dave Caruso...Dave Caruso's kind of fun: "I know he killed your family...but he won't do it again." He says the stupidest sh*t. "I know he shot your children, but he won't do it any more." There isn't really a recognisable personality out there.”
“Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.”
“Nowadays, there is more freedom of choice, which may have complicated life for people instead of making it easier. People are living with their checklists and pens in their pockets, ready to find someone who meets their standards and expectations. It is like buying a product in a local store. Tall? Check? Funny? Check! Smoking? Heavy minus. And so on, and on, and on. They don’t even realize that they themselves can be the standard for someone they personally would never choose. It’s a dilemma that makes people lonely.”
Source: Petrichor
“Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries we are left with the problems which aren't poverty. All right, there may be poverty because people don't know how to budget, don't know how to spend their earnings, but now you are left with the really hard fundamental character—personality defect.”
Source: Margaret Thatcher In Her Own Words
“Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.”
“Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.”
Source: Hadewijch (CWS)
“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
“Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.”
Source: Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane
“Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.”
“Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.”
“Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.”
“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.”
“Nowadays we are forced with so many things in life in society that all of the sudden we are no longer in tune with our soul, and if you can find a channel to that soul, its dark, and you've got to be able to look at it, with joy, because you're willing to look at it.”
“Nowadays we can be surrounded by people but be lonelier than ever.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.”
“Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.”
“Nowadays, we don't... go to an exhibition and see a piece of art directly. What we see is... a concept of what a curator perceives as art. Simply put, a true artist is not the director, but the curator. Everything depends on the curator's choice.”
“Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“Nowadays we got dog porn books…
Book collection of the whole life of 20 years meat breathing… shitting, eating, drinking, sleeping… walking… ruining…”
“Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.”
“Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.”
“Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.”
Source: The Moviegoer: A Novel
“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”
“Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.”
“Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace—we receive it.”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.”
“Nowadays with the injury that I have, it's not easy, but the technology and procedures are so much more advanced than they have been in the last 20 years. They're getting unbelievable results and I'm anticipating I'll get those same results and come back stronger.”
“Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.”
“Nowadays words like "Liberal" and "Muslim" are used by right-wing extremists in the same way as the word "Jew" was used by the right-wing extremists of Nazi Germany.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“Nowadays writers are more than readers. Now tell me how can we increase readability? Sometimes I feel that is everyone is reading complete books ?”
Source: Quotations & Stories: Thoughts
“Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.”
“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.”
“Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.”
“Nowadays you can't be loud enough!”
“Nowadays you can't even spank your kids. No, gotta give 'em a time out. My dad would take time out of his busy day... to whip our ass.”
“Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.”
“Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.”
“Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.”
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.”
Source: Lolita
“Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.”
“Nowadays you’ve got to stalk your man.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.”
“Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement.”
Source: Life Ceremony
“Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.”
Source: Hood