Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
~By Jacques Prevert ~
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~By Ron Paul ~
The future is the worst thing about the present.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
~By Isaac Hanson ~
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
~By Paul Kane ~
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
~By Richard Wright ~
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
~By Celine Dion ~
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
~By Ellen Key ~
I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis.
~By Isaac Low ~
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~By David Brooks ~
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
~By Walt Whitman ~
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
~By Alfred Schnittke ~
If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.
~By Steve Albini ~
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
~By Emma Stone ~
Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
~By Brian Eno ~
I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.
~By Mark Kirk ~
I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
~By Peter Krause ~
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
The entertainment is in the presentation.
~By John McTiernan ~
Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
The past has to inform the present.
~By John Turturro ~
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
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.
~By Albert Finney ~
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
~By James Otis ~
Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
~By Peter Singer ~
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.
~By Rod Parsley ~
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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 ~
I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
~By Willie Aames ~
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 ~
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.
~By Nicole Appleton ~
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
~By Kingsley Amis ~
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
~By Orson Pratt ~
The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
~By Henry Ford ~
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~By Charles Dickens ~
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
~By Gerry Spence ~
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.
~By Jacqueline McKenzie ~
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 ~
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
~By Ron Lewis ~
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~By Aeschylus ~
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
~By Joseph Hume ~
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
~By Diane Johnson ~
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
~By Susan Sontag ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
~By Jim Gibbons ~
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
~By Seneca ~
Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.
~By Edward Wadsworth ~
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
~By Robert Conklin ~
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.
~By Nick Rahall ~
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
~By Bobby Sands ~
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
~By Michael Caine ~
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
~By Hans Blix ~
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
~By John Locke ~
I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
~By Steve King ~
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 ~
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
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 ~
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
~By E. M. Forster ~
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
~By Joan Blades ~
What I am interested in is the present time.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
~By Joan Rivers ~
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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