Present Quotes

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.