Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want… — James Gunn
It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking… — Rashad Evans
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the… — Sarah Knowles Bolton
Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job as a stepping-stone… — J. Richard Clarke
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human… — Charles de Foucauld
The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest… — Nicholas Culpeper
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. — George H. Mead
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead… — David Bentley Hart
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti
I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want… — Kabir Bedi
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our… — Bainbridge Colby
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only… — Jack Finney
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In… — Mireille Guiliano
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil… — Harri Holkeri
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief. — William Irwin Thompson
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. — Mary Wesley
There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I… — John Nelson Darby
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian. — Zebulon Pike
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury

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