Present Quotes

• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Way
  • Order
  • Blame

• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present

• 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
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Grateful

• One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Trying
  • Pain
  • Present

• I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Time
  • Future
  • Present

• One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

  

  Daniel Goldstein
  • Why
  • Future
  • Brain

• At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • American
  • Past
  • Service

• When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.

  

  Neil Postman
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.

  

  Randy West
  • Job
  • True
  • Team

• The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Country
  • Present

• It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as Beijing, London, and New York. It will also be intriguing to see if smaller cities and towns adopt aspects of Seoul's screen culture throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • America
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone makes existence tolerable.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Alone
  • Present

• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

  

  Bette Midler
  • High
  • Present

• Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings account. It's not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Women
  • Children
  • Real

• A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Thoughts
  • Moment

• You don't build a bond without being present.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Present

• What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Men
  • Humanity

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Person
  • Moment

• I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Present

• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Future

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