Presents Quotes

514 quotes by 463 authors

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream. — Aristotle
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head… — William Shakespeare
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. — Andre Gide
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it… — Louis D. Brandeis
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their… — Walter Savage Landor
I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my… — Demetri Martin
It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be… — David Spangler
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself… — William James
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,… — Baron d'Holbach
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. — Edgar Cayce
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg

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