Present Quotes

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Be present and in the moment.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.