Present Quotes

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Confine yourself to the present.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.