Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.
If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.
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.
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
The digital world is so convenient and nice, but just playing back a vinyl record is a much warmer, hotter, more present feeling.
I’ve been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I’ve been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than ‘Obamacare.’ It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.
And we’re seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present ‘nowness’: a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can’t be tied to a specific timescale.
Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
I’m always most excited about the job I’m doing at the present, and that’s especially true about ‘Price’ because of my respect for the show and it’s production team.
For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.
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.
I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it’s being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you’re acting, and if you are thinking about how you’re acting, then you are preoccupied and you’re going to end up being insincere. You’re kind of not present.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The present is a point just passed.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism – for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts – and in-space supply logistics.
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement – one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Most of the moments of our life – and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 – most of them don’t leave a trace.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Many textbooks fail to present students with both sides of an issue. Students are being pushed toward an education that demonizes free enterprise while advocating top-down government, deficit spending and class warfare.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn’t expect.
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody’s grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it’s always fleeting.
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
When I’m in the ring I’ve got a million people watching me weekly, looking for me to present something memorable to them.
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
