Presence Quotes
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
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Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
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Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
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The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
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Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
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No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
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Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."
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The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
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As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.
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Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
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Our focus is to continue to pioneer branded entertainment online and consider opportunities as they come. We're smart enough to know that we can't bite the hand that feeds us and neglect our Internet presence.
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Alone, without the looking-glass of another person’s presence, the mirrors of the imagination sometimes effect cunning distortions.
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I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
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It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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What prompts you and me to keep going through the hard times of life? God’s presence. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else.
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Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
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Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
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Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.
