Quotes with present

Quotes 281 till 300 of 346.

  • Basil Bunting To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Alan Cohen To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bo Bennett 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.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Traherne 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.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Billy Bennett 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.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Barbara Jordan 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.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Jordan 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.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Wolfe 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.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • E. M. Forster 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.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
    Speech Richmond, Virginia, 20 september 1952
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ben Klassen 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.
    White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983)
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  • Ronald Laing 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.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek 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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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Ainsworth We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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