The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad news on a major basis.
Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
