It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
~By Garet Garrett ~
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
~By Norman Lamm ~
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
~By James Larkin ~
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
~By William Ames ~
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
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.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
~By Donald Cargill ~
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.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~By Buddha ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
~By Frederick M. Vinson ~
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 ~
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 ~
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.
~By Edward Dyer ~
I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
~By Robert G. Menzies ~
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
~By Omar Sharif ~
You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
~By Clive Davis ~
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
~By Sam Houston ~
I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
~By Denise Crosby ~
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
~By Susanne Langer ~
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 used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
~By Helen Suzman ~
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
~By Geena Davis ~
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
~By Ron Carter ~
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
~By Alain Resnais ~
Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
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.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
~By Mary Astell ~
A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
~By John Bright ~
I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
~By Frank Scott ~
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
~By Bruce Kent ~
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
~By Tim Robbins ~
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.
~By Edward Bok ~
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
~By George Herman ~
I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
~By Herman Gorter ~
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
~By William Whipple ~
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
~By Dean Acheson ~
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.
~By Julius Streicher ~
It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
~By Mary Wesley ~
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
~By Alan Dundes ~
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
~By Catherine Booth ~
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
~By Leon Kass ~
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
~By Alfred Schnittke ~
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 ~
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.
~By Jeff Garcia ~
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
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 ~
And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.
~By Stephen Cole Kleene ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
~By Gene Oliver ~
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 ~
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
~By Cass Sunstein ~
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~By Simone Weil ~
We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.
~By David Milne ~
The present will not long endure.
~By Pindar ~
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
~By William O. Douglas ~
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
~By Peter Straub ~
Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
~By Josiah Warren ~
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
~By Neal Cassady ~
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.
~By Paul Guilfoyle ~
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