Present Quotes
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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.
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I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
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The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
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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.
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We must know how to look into images to see that of which they are survivors. So that history, liberated from the pure past (that absolute, that abstraction), might help us to open the present of time.
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
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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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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
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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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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.
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I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more 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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People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might present to them. So telling stories to build a relationship with your audience is usually far more effective than other methods of marketing or publicity.
