Quotes About Presence And Presents

#1. I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Indra Nooyi

#2. We've a saying that you should always expect pleasant surprises. The unpleasant surprises will come anyway.

Petra Durst-Benning

#3. Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.

Heather Schuck

#4. This holiday season has taught me the value of presence over presents.
It is good to be home.

JohnA Passaro

#5. If a writer, despite his natural gifts, gives up writing because no one will publish him, then he is no writer. The artist is distinguished by his urge to create, which by very definition is a concomitant of talent.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#6. Explanations can't explain love--only deep perception can do that.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It's not your life that is disappointing: it's your mind.

Gregg Krech

#8. This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

JohnA Passaro

#9. Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Felicity Kendal

#10. Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. She wondered what would happen if they announced what had just happened now, casually: The two of us are going to be married.

Cassandra Clare

#12. He needed to taste her like he needed his next breath.

Katie Reus

#13. The magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence.

Unknown

#14. Sleep did not honor me with it's presence.

Alysha Speer

#15. To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

William Blake

#16. Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Last night, I killed a man. If I had to, I'd do it all over again. Afterwards I slept like a baby. There's a surprising amount of physical exertion in murder - they don't call it a dead weight for nothing.

A.E. Rawson

#18. It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

Julieanne O'Connor

#19. All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

David Jeremiah

#20. Wonder Woman presents a challenge because she needs to be drop-dead gorgeous, but also very, very strong both physically and emotionally. She's a powerful presence and we had to find that balance between athleticism and glamour.

Bruce Timm

#21. Our children need our presence, not our presents.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#22. To awaken to the living dream within one's life and
remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.

Michael Meade

#23. I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment?

Franz Kafka

#24. You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Barry Goldwater

#25. Fear is a tool not a weakness

Rachel Van Dyken

#26. The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.

Richard Avedon

#27. A word of forgiveness, not to mention love, goes a long way toward healing the soul.

Diane Owens Prettyman

#28. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Jackson

#29. People may claim to be "free," yet they cannot control themselves from gluttony in the presence of food or from illicit sexual relations when the opportunity presents itself. Such a notion of freedom is devoid of substance.

Hamza Yusuf