Best Presently Quotations
148 Presently quotes by 124 unique authors
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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore…
— Claude Nicollier
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Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail…
— Heinrich Heine
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The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.
— William A. Dembski
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To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,…
— John Muir
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Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the…
— Arthur Bryant
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would…
— Saul Bellow
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If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of…
— James Freeman Clarke
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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old…
— Stephen Leacock
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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist…
— Stockwell Day
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to…
— Salman Rushdie
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
— Lech Walesa
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a…
— Thomas Hardy
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See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to…
— Jack Spicer
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I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle...
— C.S. Lewis
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There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
— Edith Wharton
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal…
— Victor Hugo
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of…
— C.S. Lewis
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And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand.…
— Fran Lebowitz
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