Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 198 authors

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the… — Alister E. McGrath
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.… — Bob Hawke
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital… — Thurgood Marshall
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which… — Leo Tolstoy
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not… — Shelby Steele
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as… — Thomas Berry
Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from… — Adolf Hitler
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful… — Jonathan Swift
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth… — Albert Einstein
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this… — Hans F. Sennholz
We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present… — Jane Fonda
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. — Ricky Martin
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that… — Joseph Beuys
If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of… — Frederic Farrar
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer

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