The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.