Present Quotes - page 25

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. (Fredrik Bajer)
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes ‘‘no mind'' is meditation. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. View quote
Brandon Mull
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d'être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians. View quote
Gary DeMar
[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. View quote
Garth Stein
We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men. (Greg L. Bahnsen)
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments. View quote
Graham Hancock
You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same. View quote
Deb Caletti
It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. View quote
David Levithan
There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy. View quote
Dennis Merzel
In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go. View quote
J.R. Ward
Be fully present for five minutes every day. View quote
Geneen Roth
I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present. View quote
Joy Fielding
No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation. (John Mott)
The past has to inform the present... View quote
John Turturro
It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. View quote
Jonathan Maberry
It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free. View quote
Emmet Fox
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. View quote
Alice Sebold