Present Quotes

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Vidya Balan

BeautifulPastThinkPresentYou

We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver's license.

Mike Gallagher

LiveCarCultureWalkPresentBeat

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

Richard G. Scott

PresentCreateSpiritAtmosphere

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

Terence Winter

StrongPresentOpinionsYouWant

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

Dana Carvey

WorkFatherMePresentYearFair

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

FaithGreatPastPresentKnow

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

BirthdayTimeMyselfPresentLiving

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Germaine Greer

ChildrenWarPresentAdviceYouGo

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

Varley O'Connor

LifeGreatPastSmallPresentOut

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

Michelle Branch

TeenListeningThinkPresentMore

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.

Richard Dawkins

CommunicationPresentLanguageShort

Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive.

Sasha Velour

BeautyTruthMyselfTruth IsPresent

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

ScienceStartBelievePresentWill

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

Matt Hardy

TimeMomentPresentDoingEnjoyTry

I have always put a lot of effort into the way I present myself; just ask my children or students!

Brigitte Macron

ChildrenMyselfEffortPresentWay

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

George MacDonald

FutureBestPreparationPresentDone

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Ulrich Beck

FutureEyesPresentGlobalizationUs

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

Michael Korda

MomentPastPresentBackReadyOver

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

Mark Frost

LifeLivePresentYouPlaceGet

For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster.

Sarah Hall

FutureSocietyPresentPolitical

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.

Edmund Husserl

PresentNothingThroughConsciousness

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Jeffrey Deitch

ArtWorldTransformationPresentLos

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.

Arthur Henderson

LifePoliticsPresentQuestions

As you go back or move toward insights/ideas/events/words/lessons/mistakes in the past, you develop into the future from the present. I think that's pretty cool that two quote-unquote opposites are intrinsically linked. That whole theme of opposites being two sides of the same whole is a theme that's always been intriguing to me.

Esperanza Spalding

FuturePastMeCoolThinkPresent

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