Present Quotes

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.