Present Quotes

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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels… — Gael Greene
If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of… — Frederic Farrar
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought… — Phillips Brooks
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same… — Martin Chemnitz
The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present. — Eddy Sims
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. — Gregg Easterbrook
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it. — Alan Johnson
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future. — Jess Conrad
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time… — Grenville Kleiser
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. — Lionel Trilling
If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize. — Edward Abbey
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of… — Thomas Jefferson
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them… — Benjamin Franklin
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… — Thomas Paine

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