Present Quotes
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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
Cressida Cowell
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I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
Darren Johnson
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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.'
Evan Osnos
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
William Gurney Benham
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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
Joy Fielding
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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
Neil Oliver
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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
Susan Choi
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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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We have four great clubs that not only represent the history of European basketball but also have an important present and a bright future.
Jordi Bertomeu
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
Cressida Cowell
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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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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.
Eugene H. Peterson
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Marcel Proust
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
Andrew Sean Greer
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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George Eliot
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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.
Michel Foucault
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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
Bob Goff
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
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Be greatly aware of the present.
Gautama Buddha
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A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
Sarah Palin
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Ziad K. Abdelnour