Present Quotes
-
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
-
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.
-
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.
-
The best present I've ever given someone is myself. I've given it to everyone.
-
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
-
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
-
It seems only natural to me to present my men's and women's collections together.
-
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.
-
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
-
I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
-
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
-
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
-
I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
-
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
-
I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
-
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
-
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
-
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
-
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
-
The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
-
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
-
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
-
'The past is the past,' Harry goes on, 'you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.'
-
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
