Present Quotes
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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?
James Hilton
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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
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
John Milton
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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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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
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That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
John Ruskin
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
Lauren Bacall
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The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
George H. Brimhall
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There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.
Bram van Velde
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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.
Georgia Byng
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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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Our young people desperately want the chance to participate in and lead our nation's economic and cultural revival. They're up for the challenges that they're going to inherit. It only remains for us to present the path to address them.
Andrew Yan
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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.
Margaret Heffernan
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If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
Catherine Deneuve
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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.
Deborah Levy
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The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
Marianne Williamson
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"Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell
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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'Neill
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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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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
Alicia Keys
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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
David Finckel
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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
Jerry Yang