Present Quotes - page 26

Be present and in the moment. (Alyssa Milano)
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. View quote
Kate Millett
Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise. View quote
Cressida Cowell
I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality. View quote
Christina Ricci
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records - Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races. View quote
Langston Hughes
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. View quote
Lev Grossman
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. View quote
Denis Waitley
Crying over what's gone won't find the present. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. View quote
Les Brown
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present. (Alice Morse Earle)
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. View quote
Bil Keane
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past. View quote
Ellen Gilchrist
I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present. View quote
Garry Shandling
The mind is always present. You just don't see it. View quote
Bodhidharma
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. View quote
Ann Brashares
The present no matter what I brought couldn't change the past. The Past was set and sealed. View quote
Ann Brashares
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. View quote
Derek Barton
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. View quote
Ruth Benedict
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. (Bo Bennett)
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century. View quote
Manolo Blahnik
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. View quote
Vint Cerf
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt