Quotes of: Present-life Keyword

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Stanley Schmidt

Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right...

Bill O'Reilly

The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Ben Foster

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Hans Haacke

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this mile...

Jon Porter

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Agnes and the Hitman

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Anna Karenina

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

Aquarium

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Julius Caesar

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Journey to the End of the Night

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.

Rounder's People

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Shaping the dream