Present Quotes

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.