Present Quotes

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When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. — Dan Harris
My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief… — Bayard Rustin
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally… — Heather Matarazzo
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. — Nathaniel Parker
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead — Louise Brooks
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which… — Isamu Noguchi
It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed. — Salam Fayyad
I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others. — Terry Tempest Williams
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in… — Nadine Gordimer
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
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
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they… — George S. Patton
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray societyâ€™s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of… — Henry David Thoreau
Every present anger derives from past weakness. — Glen Duncan
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. — Barbara Hepworth

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