Present Quotes

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Mary Astell

Business, Mind, Body

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson

Best, Art, Past

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
John Polkinghorne

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein

Future, Planning, Bringing

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

Society, Social, Individual

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
Hart Crane

Doubt, Means, Quite

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

Good, Old, Disfavor

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
Pamela Anderson

Live, Move, Yesterday

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
Tadao Ando

Future, Past, Thinking

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
Arthur Henderson

Life, Politics, Public

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
Jane Campion

Deep, Between, Reading

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
Little Richard

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
Anthony Kiedis

Past, Stuck, Foot

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Matt Groening

Everything, Try, Else

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Andrew Weil

Health, Live, Care

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
Fergie

Business, Past, Find

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
Stockwell Day

Around, Voting, Purpose

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies

Country, Between, Rather

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Living, American, Kids

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
Michael Haneke

Society, Trying, Violence

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
Christopher Reeve

Yourself, Ugly, Whether

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Azar Nafisi

Religion, Happiness, Women

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
Vanessa Paradis

Long, Moment, Fully

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.
Alexander Payne

Whatever, Personal, Means

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion

Life, Time, Moment

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower

Friends, Pretty, Working

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower

Energy, Worth, Next

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus

Evil, Greater, Befall

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
Angela Merkel

Hurt, Example, Industry

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter

Today, Difficult, Public

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