Present Quotes

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

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

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.