Present Quotes
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The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.
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Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.
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In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.
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Yoga always helps me slow down, be present, and be grateful for my health and well-being.
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I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
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But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.
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I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
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Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'
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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
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Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
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The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it, the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven. Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort joy and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for us.
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I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
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I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!
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Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.
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We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.
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Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.
