Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 198 authors

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point. — Ken Wilber
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important… — Anton Chekhov
The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts… — David Platt
Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can… — Bill W.
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when… — Joan Blades
I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come… — Charlie Gonzalez
The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran
We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live… — S. N. Goenka
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program. — Kim Dae-jung
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own… — Murray Rothbard
Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead… — Hal Turner
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for… — Dale Carnegie
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and… — Anna Lindh
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. — Paul Scott
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the… — Mikhail Bakunin
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. — George Crumb
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the… — Barbara Johnson
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific… — Willard Van Orman Quine

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