Present Quotes - page 24

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. (Anna Freud)
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing. View quote
Matt Groening
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like. View quote
Andy Andrews
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. View quote
Miuccia Prada
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility. View quote
Eugen Herrigel
The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life. View quote
Paul Evdokimov
Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. (Pierre Dukan)
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. View quote
Peter Benchley
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. View quote
Andrew Weil
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. View quote
Richard Rogers
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future. View quote
Robert Walser
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. View quote
Robert Greene
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
What I am interested in is the present time. View quote
Sophie Marceau
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present. (Suze Orman)
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. View quote
Tadao Ando
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any. View quote
Philip K. Dick
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. View quote
Francisco de Quevedo