I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.