Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done… — David Murray Cowie
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the… — Sean O'Casey
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back… — Andre Gide
I'm about the present. — Monica Seles
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or… — Samuel Johnson
Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We… — Chaim Weizmann
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future — Zig Ziglar
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with… — Gottfried Leibniz
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these… — Ernest Renan
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… — Marshall McLuhan
The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way. — Unknown Author
To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at… — Dorothy Draper
When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we… — Linda Gregg
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory. — Arthur Eddington
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we… — Alan Watts
We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know… — Unknown Author
Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start… — Rajneesh
The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system… — Unknown Author
Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at… — Unknown Author
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical… — Charles Lindbergh
Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations… — Emmet Fox
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind… — Olympia Brown
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of… — Swami Vivekananda

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