Present Quotes
6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
— Cameron Crowe
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,…
— G. H. Hardy
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us…
— Carl L. Becker
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
— Klemens von Metternich
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I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing…
— Li-Young Lee
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Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one.…
— Denise Levertov
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
— Thomas Malthus
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To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or…
— Graeme Simsion
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Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must…
— Peter Garrett
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These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also…
— William J. Clinton
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly…
— Chaim Potok
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Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.
— Eric Butterworth
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
— Ramana Maharshi
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The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To…
— Jack Kornfield
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No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
— Jack Kornfield
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You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
— Al Hirschfeld
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Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
— Salvador Dali
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When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause,…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now
— Wayne Dyer
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So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is…
— Susan Jeffers
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Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is why most of…
— Jim Rohn
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When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
— Eckhart Tolle
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