Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 196 authors

It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through… — Harold B. Lee
We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and… — Walt Disney
Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun,… — Will Rogers
The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to… — Paula Gunn Allen
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource… — Wendell Berry
Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future… — Stephen Grosz
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society… — Alfred North Whitehead
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present… — Hart Crane
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is… — Stockwell Day
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing
Children aren't just our future. They're our present. — Ricky Martin
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of… — Karl Marx
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with… — Josh McDowell
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a… — Edgar Allan Poe
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past. — Adora Svitak
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. — Leo Tolstoy

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