Quotes with present

Quotes 321 till 340 of 346.

  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bil Keane Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Al Hirschfeld You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
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  • James Newman You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.
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  • Les Brown You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan You have to know the past to understand the present.
    Cosmos (1980) 62
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry David Thoreau You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ramana Maharshi You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Asa Gray Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Tony Campolo Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
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  • Barbara Hepworth [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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