Presents Quotes
514 Presents quotes by 444 unique authors
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
— Dervla Murphy
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of…
— Solomon Northup
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Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art…
— Richard Huelsenbeck
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In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity…
— Kano Jigoro
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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons…
— Marianne Williamson
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I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.
— Sean Connery
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The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of…
— Avicenna
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If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.
— Shakti Gawain
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Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment…
— Leonard Jacobson
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to…
— Chris Hughes
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What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be…
— Thomas Nagel
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to…
— John Selden
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to…
— Ellen Hopkins
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As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
— Corliss Lamont
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When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to…
— Truman Capote
Who Wrote These Presents Quotes
444 authors contributed a total of 514 Presents Quotes, led by these top contributors: