Quotes of: Present-time Keyword

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

John Hope Franklin

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

John Hull

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.

Jerzy Kosinski

Meeting another doctor with a degree different than your own, presents you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge.

J. Alec Keaton

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.

John Kuypers

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.

Kate Braverman

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Herbert Spencer

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

Michelle Branch

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Grover Cleveland

[to Sophie] Howl: See that new color on the dial? There's a new portal. It's a present for you. Come see.

Howl's Moving Castle

Ebenezer Scrooge: You're a little absent-minded, spirit. Ghost of Christmas Present: No, I'm a LARGE absent-minded spirit!

The Muppet Christmas Carol

John Oldman: What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic had survived until the present day?

The Man from Earth

[Steven gives Sheba a necklace as a Christmas present] Steven Connolly: It's made of real fake gold.

Notes on a Scandal

George: If one is not enjoying one's present, there isn't a great deal to suggest that the future should be any better.

A Single Man

Sergeant: [about the second present Andy opens ] It's... it's bedsheets! Mr. Potato Head: Who invited that kid?

Toy Story

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J. G. Ballard

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

William Bartram