Present Quotes

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Confine yourself to the present.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.