Present Quotes
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The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.
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When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness.
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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
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... oh! love will lastWhen all that made it happiness is past,-When all its hopes are as the glittering toysTime present offers, time to come destroys,-
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I was interested in being present for its first, and I trust only, performance.
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
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Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.
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We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.
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I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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At present they philosophers seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?
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Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
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I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
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The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end.
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We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.
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The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
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You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
