Quotes with present-giving

Quotes 181 till 200 of 561.

  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Donald Trump I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bette Midler I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • A. A. Milne I'm giving this to Eeyore, he explained, as a present. What are you going to give?
    Couldn't I give it too? said Piglet. From both of us?
    No, said Pooh. That would not be a good plan.
    Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Six
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bruno Dumont I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Katherine Mansfield I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Cyril Connolly Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Adam Schiff If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
    Bonnie McKee
     
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  • Haythum R. Khalid If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
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  • A. N. Wilson If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Winston Churchill If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Diller If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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