Present Quotes

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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. — Walter Benjamin
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles
Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a… — Everette Lee DeGolyer
I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family… — Katherine Jenkins
CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two… — Steven M. Greer
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did. — John Fowles
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now. — Eckhart Tolle
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise… — Wayne Dyer
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape… — Louis Thomas McFadden
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did… — Samuel Johnson
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
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. — Annette Funicello
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living… — Bobby McFerrin
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. — Uwe Boll
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one. — Brian Jones
The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles. — Harold E. Puthoff
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life… — John Guare
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — R. Stanley Williams
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham

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