Top 100 Quotes About Presents
#1. As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.
Esther Hicks
#2. That sport best pleases that doth least know how, where zeal strives to content, and the contents dies in the zeal of that which it presents. Their form confounded makes most form in mirth when great things laboring perish in their birth.
William Shakespeare
#3. 'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
Stephen Kinzer
#4. The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
Elie Metchnikoff
#5. Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.
David Eagleman
#6. All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!
Bill Crawford
#7. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.
Peter Menzel
#8. The great Satyr and Tiger of Hyrcania presents a gift to those of the Ocean; A fleet's chief will set out from Carmania, one who will take land at the Tyrren Phocaean.
Nostradamus
#9. I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.
Atom Egoyan
#10. God often presents us with the test of love at the point when we ourselves are struggling.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.
Dale Evans
#12. To Hope
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.
John Keats
#13. A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Kent Beck
#14. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.
Michael Pollan
#15. There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Edward Abbey
#16. I don't think so. Beth didn't get any presents.
Breehn Burns
#17. That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .
Debbie Howells
#18. But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
Eva Herzigova
#19. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
#20. The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.
Scott Rigell
#21. You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you, Garrett joked.
Tara Sivec
#22. Januz feels glad to have her in his arms
his wife, who would do anything to protect their son. This is how she presents herself. Like a soldier who would kill for her country. And her country is their son.
Amanda Hodgkinson
#23. Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Thomas Harris
#24. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
Douglas Adams
#25. The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
Philip Schaff
#26. I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham
#27. Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!
Rick Riordan
#28. The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#30. An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
Philippe Petit
#31. On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
Kay Lenz
#32. Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
Ovid
#33. I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
Daisy Berkowitz
#34. What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.
Rosa Luxemburg
#35. Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.
Shakti Gawain
#36. Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.
Rob Hopkins
#37. Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
Ovid
#38. There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.
Ethan Hawke
#39. The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man's consciousness in action - the dance presents a stylized version of man's body in action.
Ayn Rand
#40. My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
Arabella Weir
#41. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.
Sylvia Plath
#42. Everyone is running from something. But if we're lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents an opportunity to conquer our fears. Only then, if triumphant, can a destiny bestowed become a destiny fulfilled.
Rome Sims
#43. One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one
or two
do come to something.
Robin McKinley
#44. perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.
Carlos Castaneda
#45. Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
Krist Novoselic
#46. There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
Frank Herbert
#48. Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
Steven Holl
#49. Got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with.
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Grover Cleveland
#51. Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.
Starhawk
#52. It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.
Nick Minchin
#53. Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.
Thomas F. Wilson
#54. I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
Alex Turner
#55. To keep me happy he can't just buy me presents, he has to be present. I want love. Not Louis Vuitton. And that's one hell of a burden for any man to carry.
Amy Mowafi
#56. Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.
Pete La Roca
#57. Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork ... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.
Kurt Schwitters
#58. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler
#59. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
Evelyn Waugh
#60. I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.
Carrie Underwood
#61. People you meet on your journey may not give you direct answers, but listen and observe. Everyone on your path presents a lesson for you.
Sheila Burke
#63. One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
#64. When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings. Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection." "Why
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#65. I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.
Todd Rundgren
#66. Inconstancy. - Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
Blaise Pascal
#67. I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
Artur Schnabel
#68. The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
Joseph Joubert
#69. Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.
Henri Poincare
#70. Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
Victoria Osteen
#71. Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves ... We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.
Leonard Jacobson
#72. Other women were like presents he was constantly disappointed in unwrapping
Jess Walter
#73. Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
Carnie Wilson
#74. You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.
Jack Welch
#75. Presents are not "things" but a means for conveying someone's feelings. When viewed from this perspective, you don't need to feel guilty for parting with a gift. Just thank it for the joy it gave you when you first received it.
Marie Kondo
#76. You give me moments, moments where I don't remember I'm sick, moments where only we exist. They're like tiny presents sprinkled throughout my life.
Rachel Van Dyken
#77. I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
Trey Songz
#78. Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.
Gary Zukav
#79. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.
Edward Abbey
#81. As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#82. Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents.
Stephen Richards
#83. Does it matter if you get the presents anyway? she said, making a direct appeal to greed.
Terry Pratchett
#84. Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.
Frederick Lenz
#85. To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
Karl Kraus
#86. I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
Douglas Alexander
#87. Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren
#88. Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
Agatha Christie
#89. When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
David Henrie
#90. One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
D.H. Lawrence
#91. Christianity, in particular, presents impressive obstacles to thinking intelligently about the nature of the human mind, asserting, as it does, the real existence of individual souls who are subject to the eternal judgment of God.
Sam Harris
#92. Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo
#93. Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Philip Sidney
#94. Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrane.
John McPhee
#95. I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice Cube
#96. 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
#97. To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.
Robert Greene
#98. Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
Joseph Silk
#99. I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.
Harriet Miers
#100. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.
Amit Kalantri
