#yesterday

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

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

#almost #any #below #country #die

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#bad #bad habit #been #before #day

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#feel #funny #i #more #powerful

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#had #haven #his #hope #i

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

— Bil Keane

#future #gift #past #present #today

I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends. ↗

— Donald Trump

#back #came #did #dump #friends

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#big #both #joy #look #mine

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#expert #happen #know #predicted #things

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#child #dog #less #lifetime #lost