Present Quotes - page 31

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. (Helen Dunmore)
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. View quote
Imelda Staunton
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. View quote
James Lane Allen
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. View quote
James Larkin
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. View quote
Jerome Hines
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. View quote
Jez Butterworth
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. View quote
Joan Blades
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress. View quote
Joan Smalls
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic. View quote
John A. Logan
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. View quote
John Guare
If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. (John Hope Franklin)
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. View quote
John Podhoretz
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. View quote
John Sentamu
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. View quote
Jon Meacham
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment. View quote
Jonathan Ames
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. View quote
Jools Holland
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything. View quote
Joseph J. Ellis
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it. View quote
Julian Schnabel
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. View quote
Ken Burns
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on. (Krista Tippett)
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that. View quote
Lesley Garrett
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources. View quote
Lillian Russell
I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way. View quote
Lisi Harrison