Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
~ Robert Conklin
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.
~ Lynn Shelton
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
~ Douglas Macarthur
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
~ Kenneth L. Pike
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
~ Elizabeth Thornton
There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics.
~ Dylan Taylor
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~ William Law
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
~ Thomas Sowell
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
~ Sandra Lee
I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!
~ Kimberley Nixon
I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
~ Robin Trower
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
~ Michael Scheuer
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
~ Kristina Mcmorris
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
~ Nikola Tesla
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
~ Emile M. Cioran
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
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
~ John Desmond Bernal
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
~ Franz Boas
I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.
~ Tony Bradman
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
~ Damian Marley
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
~ Robert Fripp
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
~ Epicurus
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.
~ Charles Bass
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
~ Charles De Montesquieu
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
~ Carol P. Christ
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
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
Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
~ Katherine Mcnamara
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
~ Guy Finley
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
~ Tacitus
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
~ José Rizal
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
~ John F. Kennedy
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
~ Azar Nafisi
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
~ Rumi
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
~ Kate Millett
The point of power is always in the present moment.
~ Louise L. Hay
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
~ Roger Williams
