Present Quotes
6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors
-
Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite…
— Oliver Heaviside
-
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
-
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil…
— Thomas a Kempis
-
There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that…
— John Wayne Gacy
-
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
— Bill Condon
-
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does…
— Eckhart Tolle
-
If things are tough, remember that every flower had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. So do not grieve about…
— Barbara Johnson
-
I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to…
— Pat Benatar
-
And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great Duty, your limitless…
— Ken Wilber
-
If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't…
— Ken Wilber
-
Furthermore, it is not that Spirit is present but you need to be enlightened in order to see it. It is not that you are…
— Ken Wilber
-
If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
— Mark Van Doren
-
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I…
— Tabitha Soren
-
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
-
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of…
— James S. Coleman
-
Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean…
— Joseph Stalin
-
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
— Charles Olson
-
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living…
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
-
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that…
— Edmund Leach
-
Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.
— Thomas Sowell
-
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the…
— David Jeremiah
-
There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to…
— David Jeremiah
-
Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world.…
— Max Lucado
Who Wrote These Present Quotes
3,495 authors contributed a total of 6,568 Present Quotes, led by these top contributors: