Present Quotes

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.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.