Present Quotes - page 27

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. (George Herbert Mead)
I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis. View quote
Paul von Hindenburg
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. View quote
Glen Duncan
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. View quote
Janice Dickinson
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month. View quote
Mike Dirnt
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. View quote
Christopher Dawson
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. View quote
Jim Davis
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. View quote
John Naisbitt
You don't build a bond without being present. View quote
James Earl Jones
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. View quote
James Earl Jones
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. (Barbara Jordan)
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. View quote
Barbara Jordan
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle. View quote
Gregory Maguire
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present. View quote
Meg Rosoff
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created. View quote
Nicolas Steno
The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat. (Mike Pence)
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. View quote
Reginald Rose
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. View quote
Robert Menzies
Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into. View quote
Portia de Rossi