Present Quotes
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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.
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I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
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There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
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We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.
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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.
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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 art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.
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We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
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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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We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
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Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
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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.
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The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
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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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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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The President of a great democracy such as ours, and the editors of great newspapers such as yours, owe a common obligation to the people: an obligation to present the facts, to present them with candor, and to present them in perspective.
