Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any path—it… — Kevin DeYoung
Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act. — Marc Ostrofsky
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not… — Germaine Greer
If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful… — Stan Brakhage
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror.… — Marshall McLuhan
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant… — Marilynne Robinson
Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very… — Doris Salcedo
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every… — Diana Wynne Jones
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. — Eckhart Tolle
Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got,… — Eckhart Tolle
Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment,… — Eckhart Tolle
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. — Iris Murdoch
Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that… — Larry Atchley Jr.
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for… — Cecil Rhodes
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil. — Alfred Edersheim
The audience wants you present, not perfect. — Darren LaCroix
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? — Arundhati Roy
After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell… — Cornell Woolrich
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid… — Henry Edward Armstrong
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers… — Wolfgang Pauli

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