Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater…
— Robert Greene
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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
— C.S. Lewis
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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
— C.S. Lewis
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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,…
— Dorothea Dix
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Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in…
— Susan Sarandon
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It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his…
— Albert J. Nock
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Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from…
— Marion Woodman
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
— Heraclitus
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Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and…
— Lloyd Grove
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Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to…
— Michelle Obama
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must…
— Henrik Ibsen
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The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up…
— William A. Dembski
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Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.
— Rick Warren
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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
— Christopher Dawson
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