Present Quotes - page 6

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. View quote
Franz Boas
At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. View quote
C. S. Lewis
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. View quote
Albert Einstein
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. View quote
Albert Einstein
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. View quote
Phillips Brooks
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. (Martha Beck)
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. View quote
Penelope Lively
Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes. View quote
Peter Arnett
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. View quote
Paul Scott
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. View quote
Annette Funicello
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations. View quote
Daniel Dennett
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. View quote
Alva Myrdal
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. (K. Eric Drexler)
The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations. View quote
Alfred Binet
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. View quote
Alfred Binet
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program. View quote
Kim Dae-jung