Present Quotes

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.