Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.
He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.
Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?
Unspoken words between you and I, Present in the eyes of knowing, Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty, I am yours.
Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
I slept through the award presentation for Napper of the Year. They had to wake me when I won. Winning was like a dream come true.
My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present.
I wrapped your birthday present in carpet, because I bought you a floor. It’s so you have something other than me to walk all over.
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.
Boxes of toilet paper make the best birthday presents. They really show I give a shit.
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.
When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.
The only true experience is of the immediate present
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
