Quotes of: Present-life Keyword

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Bruce Kent

Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

Toni Sorenson

Looking back at the past is like deleting what you have created in the present.

Life

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling the present. - From Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003

Life

​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.

Life

History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.

Love

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Walter Salles

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

William Arthur Ward

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Jeffery Deaver

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too m...

Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception

The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freel...

Reflections

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither ...

Some Fruits of Solitude / More Fruits of Solitude

It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye ...

Michael Polanyi

Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other plan...

Colin Maclaurin

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted ...

Gary Shteyngart

Servant: [Presenting a gift] For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure. Messala: The consul here? Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune. Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me. Drusus: I didn't know th...

Ben-Hur

The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsid...

Wendell Berry

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Choke

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Doomed