Present Quotes

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

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

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.