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I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~


Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~


A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~


Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~


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.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~


The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
~By Paul Scott ~


Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
~By Margaret Fuller ~


My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~


We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~By Lewis Thomas ~


If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~


Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.
~By Kristin Davis ~


When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
~By Warren Beatty ~


Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
~By Joe Barton ~


Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
~By Joseph Addison ~


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


The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~


Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
~By Aulus Gellius ~


Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
~By Tracy Chapman ~


The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
~By Bill Shuster ~


Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
~By Alex Rodriguez ~


It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
~By Josiah Warren ~


There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
~By Jenna Elfman ~


The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
~By John Vinocur ~


To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
~By George William Norris ~


Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
~By John Thorn ~


There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
~By Cass Sunstein ~


The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
~By David R. Brower ~


When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
~By Harry Stack Sullivan ~


If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
~By Norman Cousins ~


The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
~By Vernor Vinge ~


The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
~By Mark Kirk ~


Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
~By Moshe Sharett ~


If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~


Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
~By Franz Boas ~


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.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~


Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~


If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
~By Garet Garrett ~


There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
~By David Hume ~


Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~


The future is much like the present, only longer.
~By Dan Quisenberry ~


I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
~By Keith Jarrett ~


A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~


My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
~By William Godwin ~


In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~


Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
~By Hermann Hesse ~


The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
~By James S. Coleman ~


Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
~By Thomas Merton ~


And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~


I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.
~By Edward Irving ~


The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~


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


God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
~By Little Richard ~


The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
~By Richard Curtis ~


We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~


In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
~By Susan Sontag ~


I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
~By Jonathan Miller ~


I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
~By David R. Brower ~


My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~


How can German music not be represented by an article?
~By Wassily Kandinsky ~


Endure the present, and watch for better things.
~By Virgil ~


Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
~By Mary Douglas ~


We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
~By Joseph Joubert ~


This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~


It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
~By Naomi Judd ~


He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
~By Johann Most ~


With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
~By Martin Van Buren ~


I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.
~By John Pilger ~


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.
~By Alfred Einstein ~


If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
~By Robert Fripp ~


A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~


A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~


As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~


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.
~By Mike Pence ~


As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
~By Nuno Bettencourt ~


If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
~By Tom Wilson ~


I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~


What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
~By Sai Baba ~


The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
~By Billy Joel ~


I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
~By Tabitha Soren ~


I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
~By Joan Allen ~


The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~


The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
~By John H. Reagan ~


You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
~By Sally Field ~


The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
~By Jose Maria Aznar ~


The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~


More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
~By Garry Kasparov ~


Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
~By Denis Waitley ~


I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
~By Charles Olson ~


You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
~By Ken Burns ~


Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~


The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~


Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~


I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis.
~By Isaac Low ~


In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
~By Samuel George Morton ~


I have often said that there is no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented by the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.
~By John Coolidge ~


You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~


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.
~By Colin Firth ~


I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
~By Christopher Parker ~


The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~


The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.
~By Tim Murphy ~

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November 29 ,2023
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