Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
— Roy Jenkins
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
— E. M. Forster
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A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'…
— Brion Gysin
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me
— Ariane Mnouchkine
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The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the…
— Randolph Bourne
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Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.
— Pete Wilson
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All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful…
— Esther Hicks
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Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present…
— Louise Hay
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of…
— W G Sebald
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The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption…
— Maurice Strong
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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
— Marsilio Ficino
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I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other…
— John C. Calhoun
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The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks…
— Jack Canfield
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You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of…
— Eckhart Tolle
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