Best Present Ever Quotes

#1. A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour. - Author: Cedric Price

#2. What's under here?" He toyed with the hem of my shirt.
"You've forgotten already?"
He dragged my T-shirt over my head and tossed it aside. "Oh, breasts. Best present ever. Thanks, pumpkin. - Author: Kylie Scott

#3. With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#4. Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best. - Author: Meb Keflezighi

#5. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere. - Author: Mary McCarthy

#6. I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage. - Author: Robin Givhan

#7. ... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up. - Author: Jeremy Bushnell

#8. The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now! - Author: Spencer Johnson

#9. God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time. - Author: David Jeremiah

#10. I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again. - Author: James Patterson

#11. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable. - Author: Rumi

#12. That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present and to look forward to the future. - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#14. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up. - Author: J. Edgar Hoover

#15. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence. - Author: Saint Francis De Sales

#16. Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people. - Author: Beverly Cleary

#17. Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#18. The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right. - Author: Denzel Whitaker

#19. Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, Thomas Jefferson survives. - Author: David McCullough

#20. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy. - Author: Ashly Lorenzana

#21. Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#22. You were the best birthday present I ever got."
"Thank you."
"I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it."
"All right."
He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud. - Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#23. 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. - Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#24. My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences. - Author: Dash Mihok

#25. A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments.. - Author: W.

#26. You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done ... I am only interested in the present. - Author: Al Hirschfeld

#27. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success. - Author: Bryant McGill

#28. this is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal - Author: J.K. Rowling

#29. The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality. - Author: Steve Shallenberger

#30. A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones - Author: Charles Darwin

#31. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work. - Author: Molly Sims

#32. I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever. - Author: Katherine Jenkins

#33. The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was. - Author: Bill Kaulitz

#34. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. - Author: Michael J. Marx

#35. You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. - Author: Karl Lagerfeld

#36. I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation. - Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

#37. Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye. - Author: Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

#38. It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason - Author: W.C. Fields

#39. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM - Author: R.v.m.

#40. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process. - Author: Deb Brammer

#41. The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. - Author: Robert Kennedy

#43. Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. - Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#44. Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself. - Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg

#45. I can't seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present. - Author: Isaac Marion

#46. Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event! - Author: Roberto Hogue

#47. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#48. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. - Author: Ornette Coleman

#49. But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses - Author: Muriel Barbery

#50. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. - Author: Lionel Trilling

#51. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future. - Author: Augusto Boal

#52. Life is a gift. Enjoy the 'present' with gratitude! - Author: Wendy Sue Noah

#53. Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? - Author: Thomas Mann

#54. The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Author: Wayne Cordeiro

#55. The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. - Author: Jon Meacham

#56. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#57. The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change. - Author: Aliya Whiteley

#58. You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in. - Author: A.S. Byatt

#59. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying. - Author: Laura Esquivel

#60. Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. - Author: B.K.S. Iyengar

#61. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present - Author: Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#62. A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by. - Author: Ari Marcopoulos

#63. If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began! - Author: Jack London

#64. Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. - Author: George Lucas

#65. Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? - Author: George Santayana

#66. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating. - Author: Gillian Flynn

#67. If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. - Author: Catherine Booth

#68. They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls. - Author: Robert E. Howard