Present Quotes

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

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.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

The present will not long endure.

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.