Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy…
— Unknown Author
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the…
— Clarence Darrow
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
— Hippocrates
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the…
— Origen
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Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them.…
— Pelagius
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
— Ramana Maharshi
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing…
— Richard Bandler
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Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say,…
— Unknown Author
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I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at…
— John Owen
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Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
— J I Packer
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I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world…
— Charles Spurgeon
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One of the greatest distinguishing marks of false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear, he will never rain…
— Paul Washer
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The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own…
— Augustus Toplady
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can…
— Alice Miller
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