Present Quotes

• When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Present
  • Here
  • There

• History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

  

  M. King Hubbert
  • History
  • Science
  • Past

• We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  

  Bailey White
  • Present

• The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Purpose

• Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.

  

  Gennady Timchenko
  • Light
  • Present

• We do think she is an important element in this case. She was present, and we are thinking she has knowledge.

  

  Gary Myers
  • She
  • Knowledge
  • Element

• The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Up
  • Present

• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  

  T. J. Jackson Lears
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Lost

• Harry Dresden: Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.'

  

  Jim Butcher
  • True
  • Future
  • Past

• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Black

• I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

  

  Kanye West
  • Future
  • Stuff
  • Slow Down

• We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • Sacrifice

• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  

  Penelope Lively
  • Time
  • Power
  • Past

• Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man - it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Country
  • Present
  • Profound

• I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

  

  DMX
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • Present

• If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Fall
  • Present
  • Sick

• 'Lord Arthur, may I present Lady Wednesday's Dawn?' Arthur bowed. He had already half-guessed the identity of their surprise guest. She had the hauteur that all the chief servants of the Trustees possessed. A kind of look that said, I am superior and you had better admit it.

  

  Garth Nix
  • May
  • She
  • Identity

• The tendency to regard continuity, in the sense in which I shall define it, as an idea of prime importance in philosophy conveniently may be be termed synechism. The present paper is intended chiefly to show what synechism is, and what it leads to.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • May
  • Present

• What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Important
  • Help
  • Future

• May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.

  

  Umar
  • May
  • Mercy
  • Inspiring

• For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Present

• Where the light is, and each thing clear, Separate from all others, standing in its place, I drink the time and touch whatever's near, And hope for day when the whole world has that face: For what assures her present every year? In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

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