Present Quotes
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
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You have to stay in the present and give it your 100 percent.
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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
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All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
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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.
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
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Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.
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Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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I'm about the present.
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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.
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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Is such a street scene as the blue prostitutes not a picture of fantasy? Of course, only the accusation is really present. But how nice, how powerful, and how removed from nature is the design. The danger of being caught up in the representational did not exist for Kirchner he is writing about himself, in the third person. Instead he thought too painterly for that. The graphics and paintings of the 'Streetscenes' show best where purely painterly, one could say non-representational, feelings converged.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
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Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.
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When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time.
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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
