Present Quotes
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Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.
Cory Gardner
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
Amitav Ghosh
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I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
Ciaran Hinds
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If you can't be present when the time comes, then you may miss the opportunity.
Lewis Howes
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If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice
Dalai Lama
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All I ask the haters – is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences, it might come to resemble love.
Ben Lerner
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
Simon McBurney
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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
N. T. Wright
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The present is the only thing that has no end.
Erwin Schrodinger
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
Ariane Mnouchkine
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I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more about that president's record than your vision for the future, and I think that the Democrats do have to present a proactive agenda and vision for the country and not simply run against something if they're going to be successful.
Barack Obama
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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
H. Rider Haggard
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
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The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!
William Julius Mickle
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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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Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.
Dan Fante
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Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.
Kevin Macdonald
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Jesmyn Ward
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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Penelope Lively
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
Oscar Wilde
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
Eric Lange
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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
Lou Holtz
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He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.
Simone de Beauvoir