Present Quotes

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.

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.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

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.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.