Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during… — Bill Shankly
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached,… — Gangaji
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few… — Adi Da
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon,… — Al Franken
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment… — Charlie Haden
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing… — Thomas de Quincey
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
The present is the key to the past — Charles Lyell
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. — Melissa Harris-Perry
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental… — Kate Millett
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We… — Calvin Coolidge
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life… — George J. Mitchell
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one. — Max Tegmark
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation… — Ivan Chtcheglov
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar
We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration… — James Connolly
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. — Peter Thiel
Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then… — Peter Thiel
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. — Frederick Buechner
I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try… — Raf Simons
Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it… — Gordon R Dickson
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. — Christian D. Larson

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