Present Quotes
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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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.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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We have four great clubs that not only represent the history of European basketball but also have an important present and a bright future.
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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
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We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.
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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.
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More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
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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.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
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So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
