It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
Ian Hacking
ScienceActionRevolutionPresent
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
LifeChangeFuturePastLawPresent
I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.
Chris Gethard
MeListeningThinkPresentPowerful
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
Guy Finley
FutureBestPresentBright Future
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
Daniel Goldstein
LoveFutureSelfPresentNiceWay
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict
FutureFaithPresentLongOutOur
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus
FriendPresentPoliticalThings
I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.
Albert Brooks
CharacterPeopleMeThinkPresent
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
Harold Pinter
CharacterExperiencePastPresent
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.
Andrzej Wajda
TogetherPotentialPresentEnough
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
Christopher Meloni
NatureLightThinkPresentBehavior
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay
LifePeoplePresentChurchPlaceGo
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.
Edward Carpenter
WordsPresentBodyEarthPossible
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
Roy Jenkins
GreatTogetherPoliticsPresentWill
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
Timothy Spall
CharacterGreatPeoplePresentNew
Woodstock is the only thing we have going for us in this part of the state in terms of national recognition. The idea is to extract what was good about Woodstock, repackage it, and present it to Middle America.
Alan Gerry
GoodPresentAmericaRecognitionUs
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
Garry Wills
MyselfPresentMachoVeryHardly
We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
Melina Mercouri
PresentReadySayRuleIrrelevant
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
Christopher Dawson
AgeGreatPresentValuesSeenSlump
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
FearFutureHeartPastPresentLook
If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.
Benjamin Wittes
PresentShortGivingSecurityEnemy
In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!
Rufus Wainwright
GoodEvilWinWorldBelievePresent
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
Norman Lamm
GovernmentPresentModernIsrael
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing
PresentYouDutyWillSeeThread
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