Present Quotes

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There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets… — Frederick Douglass
My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my… — George Matheson
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of… — Unknown Author
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the… — Thomas A. Edison
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

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