Present Quotes

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

~ B. H. Liddell Hart

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

~ Humphry Davy

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

~ Joel Fuhrman

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

~ Thomas Fuller

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

~ Annie Dillard

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

~ Annette Funicello

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

~ Tariq Ali

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

~ Loretta Lynn

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

~ Uwe Boll

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

~ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

~ Karan Johar

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

~ Ruth Benedict

If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.

~ Terry Wogan

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

~ Harlan Coben

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

~ Phyllis Theroux

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

~ Mary Mcdonnell

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

~ Fay Weldon

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

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

~ Anna Lindh

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

~ Albert Einstein

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

~ Sarah Parcak

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

~ Pete Gallego

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

~ Scott Cook

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

~ Albert Bushnell Hart

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

~ John Maynard Keynes

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

~ James S. Coleman

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

~ Lactantius

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

~ Alva Myrdal

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

~ David Whyte

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

~ Les Brown

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

~ Henry David Thoreau

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

~ Roland Barthes

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

~ Richard Attias

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

~ E. M. Forster

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

~ John F. Kennedy

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

~ Alan Lakein

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

~ Winston Churchill