Present Quotes
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
John Milton -
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
Alice Morse Earle
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire -
The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
George H. Brimhall -
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
James Hilton -
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
Leslie Caron -
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower -
The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.
Bill Kaulitz
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In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
Augusto Boal -
For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.
Frank Lampard -
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Sidney Hook -
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
Jonathan Swift -
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future.
Ayi Kwei Armah
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There is no time like the present.
Georgia Byng -
It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
H. Rider Haggard -
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Alexander Smith -
The first character of a general idea so resulting is that it is living feeling. A continuum of this feeling, infinitesimal in duration, but still embracing innumerable parts, and also, though infinitesimal, entirely unlimited, is immediately present. And in its absence of boundedness a vague possibility of more than is present is directly felt.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
Fausto Cercignani -
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
Wilfred Burchett
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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
Ayda Field -
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Francois Rabelais -
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance
Everette Lee DeGolyer -
When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
Jodi Benson