Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 196 authors

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas. — William James
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… — William Hazlitt
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. — Josiah Royce
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we… — Maximus the Confessor
Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a… — Ivan Pavlov
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more… — George Crumb
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of… — Virchand Gandhi
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter… — Wilson Greatbatch
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation… — Donald Watson
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with… — Paul L Wachtel
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human… — Charles Kimball
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify… — David Berg
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which… — David Berg
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times;… — Thomas de Quincey
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation… — Walter Cronkite
The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been… — Brigham Young

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