Quotes 81 till 100 of 346.
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Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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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.
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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