The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Nothing can do with PAST, but if you seriously thinking some good thing at PRESENT, then you can achieve anything in FUTURE.
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.
Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
