Quotes of: Present-time Keyword

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Free-Thought on the American Frontier

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Family Happiness

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

A Familiar Rain

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Great Expectations

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

Black Art

A brick could be dropped on your mother-in-law’s head from the height of 66.6 feet. You know, as a going away present.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A long-standing commitment to living in the present—because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a fickle bitch.

The Backup Boyfriend

The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence

You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.

A Beautiful Lie

Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

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

Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

Darren L Johnson

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