Present Quotes
6568 quotes by 3495 authors
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent…
— Alexander MacLaren
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I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is…
— Ace Frehley
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All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would…
— Harold Jeffreys
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You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.
— Kentaro Yabuki
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Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be…
— Ralph Abraham
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At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.
— Paul Hawken
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Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead…
— Hal Turner
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When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
— Leon Festinger
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The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage,…
— Peter A. Levine
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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because…
— Bob Goff
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We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people…
— Hideo Kojima
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By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the…
— Justus von Liebig
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
— William Wilberforce
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The present order is the disorder of the future.
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is…
— Jill McCorkle
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present…
— Ian Curtis
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Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must…
— Maxwell Maltz
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
— Padmasree Warrior
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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature…
— Ludwig von Mises
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