Present Quotes

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.