Quotes on Present

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

Author: Pamela Anderson

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Author: Aristotle

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

Confine yourself to the present.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Author: Basil Bunting

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Author: Emile Cioran

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

Author: Edwin Cole

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Author: George Crumb

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Author: Nicholas Culpeper

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

Author: Thayer David

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Author: Frank Dobson

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

Author: Jim Evans

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Author: Thomas Fuller

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Author: Natalie Goldberg

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Author: Matt Groening

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Author: Robert Grosseteste

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

Author: Al Hirschfeld

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Author: Edward Hopper

Make a good use of the present.

Author: Horace

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Author: Jacky Ickx

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Author: Diane Johnson

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Author: Corliss Lamont

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.

Author: Henry Laurens

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

Author: Kristanna Loken

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

Author: Trofim Lysenko

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Author: Karl Marx

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

Author: Melina Mercouri

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

Author: Tom Metzger

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Author: Vincente Minnelli

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Author: Michel Montaigne

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

Author: Zebulon Pike

The present will not long endure.

Author: Pindar

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Author: Luigi Pirandello

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

Author: John Poindexter

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Author: John Polkinghorne

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Author: Francois Rabelais

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

Author: David Ricardo

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Author: Pete Rozelle

The present is a point just passed.

Author: David Russell

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

Author: Richard Scott

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Author: Kathleen Sebelius

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

Author: Peter Singer

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

Author: Theodore Sorensen

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

Author: Tertullian

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Author: Virgil

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

Author: Julie Walters

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Author: Alan Watts

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Author: Nathaniel Willis

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Author: William Wills

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

Author: Wilhelm Wundt

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Author: Bil Keane

The beauty of the present moment lies in its imperfections, for it is through our flaws that we reveal our true resilience.

Author: Amara Johnson

History is not about the past; it is about understanding the present and shaping the future.

Author: Wendell Berry