Present Quotes Page 9

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara Jordan

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
Barbara Jordan

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Stephen Ambrose

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Desiderius Erasmus

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. Glasgow

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
Rudolf Arnheim

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
George Lucas

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
Sonia Sotomayor

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
Leslie Caron

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
Audre Lorde

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
Martin Sheen

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
Saint Francis de Sales

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot