Top 100 A Present Quotes
#1. Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.
Arthur Helps
#2. Everybody has a past
everybody lives a present
and everybody deserve a future
Hlovate
#3. The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.
Abraham Maslow
#4. Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift."
"What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?
Tim Tharp
#5. Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
Adam Clarke
#6. I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.
Claudia Rankine
#7. There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider, but for the sake of the universe - and oh, how we philosophers make the universe weep - there is a present, and it is the time you just left.
Mary-Jean Harris
#8. Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus
#10. The Pain-Free Shopping Method: Buy a present for you, then a present for a friend. Then another present for you. Then a present for a friend. Then two presents for you. Then a present for a friend. Then go home, get into bed, and pull up the covers.
Cynthia Heimel
#11. We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.
Cornelius Plantinga
#13. When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin
#14. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
Edmund Waller
#15. Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment ...
Stephen Sondheim
#16. If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future. - Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now
Amy Spencer
#17. Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.
Jillian Michaels
#18. By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William Hazlitt
#19. This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.
Jimmy Carter
#20. We can't fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
Natasha Tsakos
#21. People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#22. Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it ... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70)
Ann Voskamp
#23. Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.
Alexander MacLaren
#24. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.
Stephen Chbosky
#25. The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.
Andrew Solomon
#26. I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
Dries Van Noten
#27. Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.
Mae West
#28. At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !
Rodney Dangerfield
#29. I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
Jewel
#30. Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Francis Bacon
#31. If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
David Horowitz
#32. Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.
Matt Haig
#33. Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. The Future," says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. "Coming soon, to a Present near you.
David Mitchell
#35. He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
Margaret Atwood
#36. In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality.
Pope Benedict XVI
#37. I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
Dana Carvey
#38. Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Ignazio Silone
#39. I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.
David Lubar
#40. It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
Donal Logue
#41. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Life is a present; life is a miracle.
Life is a song divine.
When you touch my heart, hold my soul.
Oh my pure valentine.
Debasish Mridha
#43. To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.
Leonard Jacobson
#45. Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory. The assurance of relationship is based on a present posture of repentance and belief.
J.D. Greear
#46. No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget.
Kaza Kingsley
#47. A present is not the source of buying someone's love but its a source of showing how much u love and apriciate that particular person
Ralph Ramovha
#48. What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?
Lisa See
#49. I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
Conchitina Cruz
#50. Against the subtle cries of nature, I found peace. I found home. I found the past and the future strung into a present that demanded to be lived.
Jeni Dhodary
#51. I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
#52. I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
Maggie Cheung
#53. You must be present in the present to make it a present.-RVM
R.v.m.
#54. Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she'd learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and relished. So today she'd cherish the gift.
Heather Burch
#55. He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#56. He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Bias Of Priene
#57. He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to
enjoy. A future to anticipate
Gena Showalter
#58. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. In His embrace, time loses all sense of speed and stress and space and stands so still and ... holy. Here is the only place I can love Him.
Ann Voskamp
#59. The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.
Flann O'Brien
#60. He didn't know how to be someone's friend. That had been proven by the brilliant idea of murdering someone as a present. He definitely didn't know how to approach someone as a lover. That had been more than proven by what had happened at the hotel in France.
Santino Hassell
#61. Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.
Jillian Michaels
#63. My dad gave me a present once,' Nico said. 'It was a zombie.'
Reyna stared at him. 'What?'
'His name is Jules-Albert. He's French.'
'A ... French zombie?
Rick Riordan
#65. When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
Bob Verdi
#66. She sat with that chewed-in yet absentminded smile on her face as if she'd been given a present she knew she would like, even if she hadn't got the wrapping off it yet.
Alice Munro
#67. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.
A.B. Simpson
#68. My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood.
After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance
sold its first million, she said I needed a place
to write, other than the local bus-shelter.
Nuala Ni Chonchuir
#69. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#70. The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life.
Xiaolu Guo
#71. A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
Alice Childress
#72. for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.
Matthew Henry
#75. Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!
Louis Sachar
#76. I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
Naomie Harris
#77. I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.
Stephen Chbosky
#78. They are sparkly," Nawat said. "The griffins shed them. I thought if I brought you a present that was made of discarded things, no one would punish you for having them.
Tamora Pierce
#79. In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
Adolf Hitler
#80. We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.
Martin Luther
#81. and a couple of days later he sent Strange a haggis (a sort of Scotch pudding) as a present.
Susanna Clarke
#82. In the house of Death there is no time but the present. (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. It was just an older one.)
Terry Pratchett
#83. There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. If some wizard would like to give me a present, let him give me a bottle filled with the voices of that kitchen, the ha ha ha and the fire whispering, a bottle brimming with its buttery sugary smells ...
Truman Capote
#85. I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
David Morrissey
#86. I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be a tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. It think that would be nice.
Stephen Chbosky
#87. In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.
Richard Bach
#88. You told me I was making you crazy last night," he reminds me, drawing me out of my thoughts, back to a present I'm uncertain of.
"You are, Chris."
"Well, you are making me crazy, too."
"Is this supposed to be making me feel better?
Lisa Renee Jones
#89. And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#90. Whatever it was it made me want to grab Frieda, throw her over my shoulder, and take her home, like some big ape. I wanted to unwrap her like a present and claim my prize - Tate.
Christina Lee
#91. A boy sees a girl topless for the first
time only once, and the anticipation of the big reveal is really exciting. I feel like I'm a present being unwrapped.
Daria Snadowsky
#92. To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
George Orwell
#93. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Olympia Brown
#94. Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?
Osho
#95. There are many, many things that are difficult in this life, but one thing that isn't difficult at all is figuring out whether someone is excited or not when they open a present.
Lemony Snicket
#96. I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
Rita Rudner
#97. I'd have to ask Oberon to leave him a present on his front doorstep. He'd do it camouflaged too, so that even if Mr. Semerdjian was watching - and he probably would be - it would appear to be undeniable, physical evidence that, sometimes, shit just happens.
Kevin Hearne
#98. I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.
Joel Edgerton
#99. Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.
Stephen King
#100. It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.
Susan Patron
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