Present Quotes
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There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
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I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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It is hidden but always present.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
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I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.
