Best Presently Words
148 Presently quotes by 124 unique authors
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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize…
— Matt Groening
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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs…
— A. S. Byatt
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and…
— Vernon Howard
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I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act…
— Ezra Pound
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;…
— Rudyard Kipling
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To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
— William Shakespeare
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God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing to do with…
— Oswald Chambers
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When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.…
— Graham Greene
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
— Victor Hugo
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he…
— Beatrix Potter
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It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the…
— Colin Meloy
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Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
— Mary Doria Russell
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Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in…
— Clive Barker
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Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
— Diana Wynne Jones
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You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
— Myles Munroe
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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its…
— H.G. Wells
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Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.
— Monica Johnson
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We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now…
— Michael W. Smith
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