Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and… — Jon Sobrino
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you… — Susanna Kearsley
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. — David Von Drehle
In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to… — Diahann Carroll
Remember that transformation is a present activity. — Jillian Michaels
Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity — Jillian Michaels
Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold… — Miranda Hart
I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. — David James
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the… — Douglas Rushkoff
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our… — Douglas Rushkoff
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. — Dan Harris
My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief… — Bayard Rustin
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally… — Heather Matarazzo
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. — Nathaniel Parker
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead — Louise Brooks
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which… — Isamu Noguchi
It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed. — Unknown Author
I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others. — Terry Tempest Williams
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in… — Nadine Gordimer
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that… — Joseph Beuys
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they… — George S. Patton
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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