Present Quotes
6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,…
— Heinrich Heine
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Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the…
— Noam Chomsky
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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for…
— Dale Carnegie
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
— Robert Grudin
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The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present…
— Ken Wilber
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We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
— Alan Watts
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
— William Gurney Benham
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We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house,…
— Nhat Hanh
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
— Unknown Author
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It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,…
— Eric Hoffer
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At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
— Unknown Author
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Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as…
— Ashley Montagu
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.
— Andy Andrews
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ALL THINGS, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they were one family. The past, present, and future are all…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend the entire truth;…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None…
— Robert Henri
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