I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
~By Molly Parker ~
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
~By Bo Bennett ~
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
~By Paul Dirac ~
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 ~
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
~By George Cuvier ~
There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
~By Tom Wilson ~
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
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 ~
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
~By Chi Chi Rodriguez ~
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 ~
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
~By George Saintsbury ~
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
~By Walter Salles ~
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
~By Alfred Schnittke ~
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
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 ~
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
~By William Shirley ~
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
~By Emma Bonino ~
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
~By Michael Jackson ~
If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
~By Penelope Lively ~
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
~By Joan Miro ~
Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
~By Paul Harris ~
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
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 ~
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.
~By Tim Bishop ~
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
~By Annie Dillard ~
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 ~
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
~By Adam Sedgwick ~
How can German music not be represented by an article?
~By Wassily Kandinsky ~
Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
~By Charles Hodge ~
I represent the views and the values of the people of the district.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.
~By Charlotte Smith ~
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~By Charles Kettering ~
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
~By Lucinda Franks ~
Make a good use of the present.
~By Horace ~
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
~By Uwe Boll ~
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
~By Tom Clancy ~
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
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.
~By Joan Blades ~
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 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 ~
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
~By Fay Vincent ~
But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
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 ~
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.
~By Julius Streicher ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
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 ~
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
~By George Wald ~
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
~By John Spratt ~
I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
~By Willie Stargell ~
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
~By Brian Eno ~
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
~By Lawrence Summers ~
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
~By Georg Simmel ~
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
~By Sophocles ~
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
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 ~
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'
~By Norman Lindsay ~
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
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 ~
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
~By Earl Warren ~
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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 ~
The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
~By Matt Blunt ~
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 ~
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 ~
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
~By Hu Shih ~
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