Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
~By Thuy Trang ~
Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
~By Ric Keller ~
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
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 ~
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
~By James Payn ~
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
~By L. Frank Baum ~
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
~By Robert Fripp ~
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
~By Joe Sacco ~
I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster.
~By David Carradine ~
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 ~
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
~By Horace ~
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
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 ~
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
~By Alan Dundes ~
I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
~By Thayer David ~
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
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 ~
When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
~By Christopher Ricks ~
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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 ~
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 ~
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
~By Carlos Santana ~
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
~By David F. Houston ~
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
~By Ernst Mach ~
But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
~By Joe Slovo ~
If we are not represented, we are slaves.
~By James Otis ~
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.
~By James Rainwater ~
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 ~
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
~By Adolph Green ~
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
~By Pete Seeger ~
If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
~By Robert Novak ~
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
~By Richard Cobden ~
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
~By Lara St. John ~
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
~By Chi Chi Rodriguez ~
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
~By Orhan Pamuk ~
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
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 ~
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
~By E. M. Forster ~
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
~By William Morris Hunt ~
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
~By Bruce Johnston ~
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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 ~
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
~By Mark Dayton ~
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
~By Berenice Abbott ~
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
~By Jack Welch ~
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
~By James Otis ~
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
~By Henry Laurens ~
The 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 ~
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 ~
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
~By James Newman ~
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
~By Alicia Keys ~
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 ~
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 ~
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
~By John T. Flynn ~
All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
~By Virgil Goode ~
It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.
~By Christopher Knight ~
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
~By John Thorn ~
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
~By Gerard Butler ~
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
~By Lennart Meri ~
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
~By Pam Brown ~
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
~By Les Brown ~
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.
~By Niki Lauda ~
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 ~
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
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.
~By William H. O'Connell ~
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
~By Walter Salles ~
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
~By Robert Bork ~
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~By Maya Angelou ~
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
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