[ present Quotes ]
Showing search results for Present Quotes - 107 quotes about Present - Dictionary Quotes
107 quotesFor present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
Joy
John Dryden
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 793 votes
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Past
Albert Einstein
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 719 votes
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Present
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 662 votes
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Rumors
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 737 votes
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Writers and Writing
Edward M. Forster
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 743 votes
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Absence
Benjamin Franklin
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 668 votes
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Writers and Writing
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 537 votes
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Words
Patricia Fripp
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 718 votes
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
Giving
Thomas Fuller
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 616 votes
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Ability
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 632 votes
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Absence
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 686 votes
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
Luxury
Albert Greenfield
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 751 votes
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Haig
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 662 votes
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Uncategorised
Alexander Hamilton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 587 votes
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
Uncategorised
Alexander Hamilton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 722 votes
The point of power is always in the present moment.
Power
Louise L. Hay
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 584 votes
Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
Management
James L. Hayes
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 723 votes
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Death and Dying
Sydney Hook
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 679 votes
Make a good use of the present.
Time and Time Management
Horace
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 439 votes
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Happiness
Doug Horton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1197 votes
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Education
Robert M. Hutchins
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 748 votes
Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
Teachers and Teaching
Immermann
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 759 votes
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Children
Jesse Jackson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 612 votes
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 618 votes
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Flattery
Samuel Johnson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 674 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun