Present Quotes

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.