Paul de Man Quotes
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
Edith Stein
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
Van Morrison
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara Jordan
You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
Sally Field
I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
Daniel Bruhl
Books are still my favorite present.
Karen Robards
Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
T.I.
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Abraham Lincoln
'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'
A. A. Milne
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
Christine Quinn
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
Enoch Powell
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
Jean-Michel Jarre
I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
Douglas Coupland
When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.
Eden Hazard
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
