1227 Present Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation. Gus Van Sant

Good Reality Problems Job Own Situation Relates Our Something Know Documentary Does Always How Been Itself Get Trying Which Interested Really Even Present

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. Gustavo Dudamel

Love Christmas Home Me Long First Too Symphony Gave Put Fell Understand Friend Expecting Listen Then Present Started

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future. Guy Finley

Future Best Being Fully Bright Bright Future Present Guarantee

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder Plutarch, plow through Gibbon. Then they get to Thomas Carlyle and feel like Dorothy when she touched down in Technicolor Oz. H. W. Brands

Great History Year Down Every Thomas Plow Classical Tackle Touched Through Students Feel Like She Read Times Get Graduate Graduate Students Oz Dorothy Ponder Then Works Present

Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense. H. W. Brands

Me History Revolution Thomas Took Way Ways Though Out Some Seemed Write He Taken Tense French Read French Revolution How Years Years Ago Effect Very Achieved Middle Story While Figure Right Things Present Present Tense

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. Hannes Alfven

Work Physics Universe Our Way Backward Must Uncertain More Remote Always Begin Laboratory Should Believed Present

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. Hans Jonas

Truth Simple Losing Seriously Wish Past Whatever Living Our We Cannot Physical Only Could Simple Truth Price Thus Identity Without Real Go Enduring In The Past Cannot Either Means Therefore Present

It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!' Hans Vestberg

Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open. Hanya Yanagihara

You Cell Phone Phone Immigration Pay Pay Attention Once Papers Out Photo Tells Hat Join Take Open Attention Ready Line Passport Off Queue Officer Cell Page Your Present

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. Harold Bloom

You Yourself People First Before Beginning Study Supposed Judaism Make Era Tradition End Very Essence Common Hebrew Which Century Holy Notion Nowhere Present Second

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. Harri Holkeri

War Time History You Every Every Time States Independent Civil Civil War Finland Had Almost Like Look Years Years Ago Ireland Than Just Nations The History Of Newly Less Even United United States Present

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. Hart Crane

Writing Year Before More Poetry Contented Am Than Office Fancy Interested Inasmuch Working Bridge Now Ever Present Symbol

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. Hart Crane

Future Vision Worth Past Out Worthy Rises Poem Delusion Between Real Exist Loss Links Any Form Explain Present

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. Hart Crane

You Stage Organic Doubt Our Presumption Primary Development Know Well Method Provide Cultural Quite Substantial Ordered Manifestation Epic Means Your Bridge Foundation Present

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. Havelock Ellis

Day Seen Beginning Rejection Unjustified Other Side Alike Sexual Both Crude Altogether Impulse Held Ignorant Theory Present

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Henepola Gunaratana

Future Memories Mind Past Sense Every Changing Others Some Through Pictures Come Like Passing Existence Impressions Often Experiences Fantasies Notice Moment Series Fast Present Present Moment

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. Henri Bergson

Cause Past Nothing More Contains Effect Than Found Present

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned. Henry Laurens

Myself States Citizens Constituents Properly General Shall Throughout Particularly Fellow Fellow Citizens Answerable Questioned Conduct Hold Present

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Time Feelings Every States Kind One Time Mental Absolutely Disappearance Disappeared Ideas Were Exist Sensations Which Then Present Consciousness

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