Present Quotes

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Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
I write with my past, about the future, for the present — Eyedea
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I… — Fabian Perez
I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more #‎ romantic than the present day — Fabian Perez
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk. — Andy Greenwald
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and… — George Washington
The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. — James A. Baldwin
Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us… — Elif Safak
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE! — Tracey Edmonds
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself. — Timothy Keller
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't,… — John Huston
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of… — Eric Hoffer
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas. — William James
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest… — William James
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. — Marcel Proust
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. — William Blake
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to… — William Faulkner
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time. — Romare Bearden
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… — William Hazlitt
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. — Howard Aiken
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving

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