436 Presence Quotes for You to Enjoy

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. John Norman

Man Woman Free Girl Unless Free Man Excused Always Doing Presence Slave

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces. John R. Allen

For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful. John Romaniello

Beautiful Home Me Book People Digital Valuable Face Hell Nice Books Bit Solid Something More Trophy Stuff Like Shelf Real Lot Just Whereas Decoration Useful Presence

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain. John Tavener

Music Myself Rain Three Improvise Sense Imitate Would Inside Something Outside Thunder Like Also Another Audience Always Maternal Hand Hand-In-Hand Grandfather Act Used Even Applaud Things Presence

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice. Jordin Sparks

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Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool. Josh Gondelman

Envy Situation Someone Guys Onstage Because Sticky Go After Really Teach Used Who Preschool Presence

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence. Josh Keaton

Physical More Well Imposing Lot Roles Younger Presence Played

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. Justin Cronin

Writing Think Other Books Read Whenever Presence

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life. Kalki Koechlin

Life Death Valuing Makes Human Us Really Presence Start

Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England. Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty. Kat Von D

Beautiful Me People Hero Somebody Example Beauty Stage Think Considered Defines Definitely Though Charisma Like For Example Look She Up Just Really Even Based Her Presence Necessarily

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. Kazuo Ishiguro

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Life God Suffering World Worth Christ Living Christianity Gave Way Worth Living He Opens Himself Fellowship Contrast Infinitely Loved Acknowledging While Eternal Eternal Life Who Presence

What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you. Kerry James Marshall

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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret. Kid Rock

Success Work You Work Hard Secret Steady Got Your Hard Presence

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula. Kim Dae Jung

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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. Kit Williams

Life Women Later Defied Distraction More More And More Tenacious He Calling Blindness His Denied Just Candles Refusing Them Presence

We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence. L. Lionel Kendrick

Remember Our Our Lives Respond Worthy Temple Having Invitation Come House Always Lord Priority His Being While Holy Should Being Prepared Act Prepared Lives Presence

We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence. Larry Kramer

What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself. Lauren Graham

Life Work Remember My Life Big About Coming Itself Suddenly Presence

The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region. Lee Hsien Loong

Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well. Lenny Abrahamson

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Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. Leon Foucault

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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world. Leon Panetta

You World Throughout Smaller Going Large Presence

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