Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is… — W. Eugene Smith
I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I… — Anzia Yezierska
When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about. — Simon Sinek
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound… — William Tyndale
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the… — Milan Kundera
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life… — Rob Bell
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley
But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege. — Holly Golightly
It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here — Stephan Jenkins
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism. — Andrew Mellon
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't… — Cass Elliot
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a… — Unknown Author
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future; — Nellie L. McClung
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. — Ariel Durant
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to… — Rebecca St. James
The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the… — Thomas Berry
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different;… — Martha Rosler
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her… — Sri Aurobindo
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with… — Shirley Jackson
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it… — Alice Childress
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung… — Emory Douglas

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