Top 484 Presence Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Presence Quotes from famous people such as Meir Soloveichik, Brian Eno, Derrick Favors, Naga Chaitanya, Bill Gates, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians,

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God’s infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.
Meir Soloveichik
Although designers continue to dream of ‘transparency’ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‘personality.’
Brian Eno
I do make a difference. I just come out and provide a presence in the paint, defensively and offensively. I play hard.
Derrick Favors
I have been able to balance work and my personal life, and with the presence of a partner, I am stronger and better prepared to face the ups and downs.
Naga Chaitanya
I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
Ivor Novello
Straight couples don’t have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn’t compulsory and its absence doesn’t invalidate a marriage.
Dan Savage
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
Ben Kingsley
Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we ‘feel the presence of another’ at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses.
Max Heindel
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
Henri Nouwen
Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
Tara Westover
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia
Obama’s presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he’d awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.
Ro Khanna
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Bernice King
I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way – it’s difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.
Marc Ostrofsky
I walked the streets of New York; I would feel the presence of Daredevil. I would see him up on the rooftop. What you are doing in your life, you start to see in your book. It all starts to merge together.
Ann Nocenti
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times… before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
Kazuo Ishiguro
I dont ever expect anything in this industry but ‘The One’ show has had such a presence in lockdown and I think to have a programme in the morning too, reflecting on the mood of the nation is great.
Gethin Jones
I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It’s just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we’ve all grown up knowing.
Ryan Eggold
We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others.
Pope Benedict XVI
If you’re a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
Ed Gillespie
Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
Blase J. Cupich
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
Russell M. Nelson
I don’t have any favourite’s as all the actors that come to the industry are all well trained in acting. But I like Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor as they are amazing actor and have a great screen presence, besides Ranveer Singh is one of the actors I like as he has immense energy that makes him stand out in crowed.
Satish Kaushik
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.
David Oyelowo
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin – Binyamin – the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
Benjamin Netanyahu
We will deploy our men and women in uniform only where there is a need, and where their presence can make a genuine difference in ensuring public safety and an easing of the humanitarian concerns at our southern border.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Robert M. Pirsig
The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
Andy Muschietti
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flut

My muse is my wife. It’s not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
Nick Cave
Why can’t I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I’m depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
Amy Sherald
I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it’s the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that’s where you feel danger.
Derek Cianfrance
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
Cliff Richard
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
John Norman
‘Devdas’ isn’t a real film. It isn’t in the same genre as Mira Nair’s ‘Monsoon Wedding,’ where the camera’s presence is so understated it almost disappears.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
Saint Patrick
Being a presence on the defensive end, I know that’s important to me, I have to establish that.
Al Horford
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global – that has a global presence that’s involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
If you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Oscar de la Renta
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
James Turrell
After ‘Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai,’ ‘Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hai’ and ‘Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai,’ my presence as a director will be felt. These three films have been very successful and ‘Badhaai Ho Badhaai’ is going to be the climax. My work is finally recognised.
Satish Kaushik
Especially when I’m heckled, that’s a sticky situation because I don’t defuse it… I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.
Josh Gondelman
Since the first announcement of ‘Korra’ a few years ago, our fan presence online has just been huge and it’s really active online. And as TV distribution evolves, even between ‘Book 1’ and ‘Book 2,’ it’s evolved even more, our audience is increasingly online.
Bryan Konietzko
Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it’s really a special thing when you can get a player that can actually bring in a lot of presence and also a visual presence, too.
Robert Trujillo
Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children’s lives. But we are human beings, too.
Annette Bening
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre de Coubertin
One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
Rudy Giuliani
The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark matter – the bending of light as well.
Priyamvada Natarajan