Present Quotes
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It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
Bob Goff
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
Andrew Sean Greer
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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.
Alexander MacLaren
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I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Susan Sarandon
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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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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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It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.
Liev Schreiber
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
Craig D. Idso
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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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When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.
John Hawkes
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Adora Svitak
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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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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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By losing present time, we lose all time.
William Gurney Benham
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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.
Erica Jong
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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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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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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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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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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
Susan Choi
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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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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George Eliot
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
Eugene O'Neill