Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
Bobby Sands

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Paul Dirac

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
Peter Singer

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
Edwin Louis Cole

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
Joe Wilson

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames

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

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Hideki Tojo

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor