Present Quotes
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Pablo Picasso -
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
Thomas Hobbes
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Marianne Williamson -
I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.
Bel Powley -
I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.
Charles Stross -
There is no way to physically always be there for your children and always be at the office and always be present for your significant other and then take care of yourself. The laws of physics necessitate that somebody or some thing is going to get the short end of the stick.
LZ Granderson -
He caun ne'er be bothered but maun e'er be waked. If there is a future in every past that is present Quis est qui non novit quinnigan and Qui quae quot at Quinnigan's Quake! Stump! His producers are they not his consumers? Your exagmination round his factification for incamination of a warping process. Declaim! (496.34 - 497.3)
James Joyce -
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
Courteney Cox
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
David R. Brower -
We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.
Arnold Mindell -
I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.
Elizabeth McCracken -
The more we can address an issue the moment we perceive it, the calmer and more present we are, and the easier it is for others to follow our lead.
Christine Comaford -
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
Bocafloja -
My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
Mark Ruffalo
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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.
Jacques Barzun -
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes -
In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.
Sidney Royel Selby III -
I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.
Allison Williams -
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
Marcel Proust -
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
Peter Ackroyd
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.
Philomena Kwao -
I guess I’ll still be grappling with my endless number of worries. But since I have to live in the present, I hope I can concentrate more on my todays — not just on my acting, but on my life. I hope I can become more assertive and expressive.
Park Cho-rong Apink -
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli