Present Quotes

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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to… — Rebecca St. James
The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the… — Thomas Berry
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, itâ€™s different;… — Martha Rosler
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her… — Sri Aurobindo
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with… — Shirley Jackson
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it… — Alice Childress
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung… — Emory Douglas
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during… — Bill Shankly
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached,… — Gangaji
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few… — Adi Da
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon,… — Al Franken
I think itâ€™s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment… — Charlie Haden
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing… — Thomas de Quincey
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
The present is the key to the past — Charles Lyell
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. — Melissa Harris-Perry

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