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.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
It’s hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still.
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Meeting another doctor with a degree different than your own, presents you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge.
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
