I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
Piet Mondrian
WorkI AmDeepPresentKnowWithin
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
Clint Eastwood
PresentYouSaySatisfiedSomething
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
LiveMomentYourselfPresentWave
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
PoliticsHealingRevolutionPresent
On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.
Mike Myers
GodDeathHappyPresentWishMovies
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Richard Phillips
ArtFoodFashionPresentAnything
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
HomePastPresentMoreSurfaceLike
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
NatureBeautyWomenPresentFirst
All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.
John Mayer
SongPresentWantKindJustIdea
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.
Brian Cox
TimeSpiritualPresentDoingEarly
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
Gloria Estefan
ChildrenChildSpeakPresentMust
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
FuturePresentMoreUncertainThan
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
Martin Sheen
BelievePresentGoodnessHumanUs
You have to present characters an audience can relate to.
Nina Tassler
PresentYouAudienceRelate
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
FreedomPastEffortPresentUpBeen
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.
C. S. Lewis
HistoryWorldThinkThoughtPresent
We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.
Mauricio Macri
FuturePresentComplicatedEven
I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.
Brad Delp
ResponsibilityPresentSituationTake
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
FashionPresentFameCondition
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
SmileGracePresentCivilization
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
Mike Dirnt
LifeSilenceThinkPresentWeek
I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
Richard Ernst
MyselfI AmChancePresentCareer
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
LifeMomentMemoryPresentYouGoes
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln
GovernmentI AmWarPresentView
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