Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be… — Eckhart Tolle
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan… — David Simon
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould. — Jacque Fresco
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret… — Alan Watts
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present. — Andy Hargreaves
If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. — Jay Weatherill
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as… — Hugh Mackay
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --… — Lewis H. Lapham
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now. — James Broughton
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost. — Samuel Chadwick
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. — Madame de Stael
Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the… — Flann O'Brien
The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both.… — Swami Satchidananda
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse… — K. Eric Drexler
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it… — Ad Reinhardt
Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation,… — Smith Wigglesworth
And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in… — Savitri Devi
Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go… — Colin Jordan
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to… — Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely… — Fawn M. Brodie
History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such… — Elizabeth Grosz
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a… — Jean Klein
Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end of the present… — John Cassian

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