Present Quotes

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

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.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.