Quotes 461 till 480 of 561.
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To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Source: Year to Success -
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
Your green tie for my little yellow dog.Source: The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13 -
Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder -
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Source: Speech Richmond, Virginia, 20 september 1952 -
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
Source: White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983) -
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
― Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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