Present Quotes
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Ban Ki-moon
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The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!
William Julius Mickle
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott
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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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Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.
David Hawkins
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Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
Nicholas Hoult
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If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
John Dickerson
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Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires.
Phyllis Smith
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The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
Caroline Myss
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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
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I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
Colin Firth
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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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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
Lord Byron
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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Jonathan Ames
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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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Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
Bill Crawford
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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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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
P. D. James
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Sidney Hook
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
Ariane Mnouchkine
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Arthur Erickson
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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.
C. S. Lewis
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Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.
Zach Braff
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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