Present Quotes - page 7

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. (Christopher Lasch)
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. View quote
Alan Lakein
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. View quote
Louis L'Amour
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. View quote
Laurie Colwin
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. View quote
Lactantius
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. View quote
Bill Condon
I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product. View quote
Niki Lauda
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. (Albert Bushnell Hart)
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. View quote
Anna Lindh
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. View quote
Asa Gray
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. View quote
Ajay Naidu
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. View quote
David R. Brower
It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point. View quote
Eberhard Weber
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. View quote
Mary Wesley
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. View quote
Nick Lampson
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. (Olympia Brown)
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. View quote
Sparky Anderson
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places. View quote
Tabitha Soren
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it. View quote
Thuy Trang