T Quotes
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“The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“The present becomes the past through increments too small to measure; suddenly something that is becomes something that was, and the way we live is not the way we lived. So much of what changed is hard for those who lived through it to remember and those who came after to imagine. In many parts of American society, kindness has increasingly become a criterion applied to all forms of interaction, but its absence before was elusive, because it's too easy to not notice who and what is not in the room.”
Source: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.”
“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”
“The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.”
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.”
Source: The Best of Benn
“The present condition of Central Africa reminds one much of that of America when that continent was first opened up to the European world. How are we to avoid a repetition of the unfortunate events, to which I have just alluded, amongst the numerous African tribes? How are we to guard against exposing our merchants, our colonies and their goods to these dangers? How shall we defend the lives of our missionaries and religion itself against the outburst of savage customs and barbarous passions? Finding ourselves in the presence of those whom we are urging to undertake the work of civilization in Africa, it is our duty to save them from such regrettable experiences as marked the corresponding phase in America.”
Source: Acte général de la conférence de Berlin de 1885
“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
“The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
“The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.”
“The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various heathen nations who were anciently in the habit of packing them upon the backs of various dumb animals.”
Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods
“The present day composer refuses to die.”
“The Present day optimists invent a lie
and the pessimists hide the truth”
“The present defines the future. The future builds on the foundation of the past.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.”
“The present duty is unselfish love. Each must forget self—in devotion to the other. Each must blame self—and not the other, when anything goes wrong.”
“The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians.”
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
“The present equipped us for the future.”
“The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.”
“The present eye praises the present object.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.”
“The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.”
Source: History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time
“The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“The present generation is the future generation, beware of what you teach them”
“The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.”
“The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on both the sides there are dangers - 'past' and ´future´ are the most dangerous words in human language.”
“The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.”
“The present grows within the boundaries of the past.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.”
“The present has no mercy for self-pity.
Every day is a chance to start over,
if you stop hiding behind yesterday.”
“The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.”
“The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”
Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs
“The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.”
“The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.”
“The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.”
“The present is a place of great beauty, of new beginnings, of astounding growth, and of shimmering, sparkling, open-ended possibilities. It’s the place where magic happens. It’s the blessed, beautiful now.”
Source: Blessed, Beautiful Now: How I Embraced The Present By Celebrating My Past And Learned to Love Life Again
“The present is a point just passed.”
“The present is a powerful deity.
[Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]”
“The present is a present, so treat it that way.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“The present is all the ready money Fate can give.”
“The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.”
Source: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
“The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.”
“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”
“The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.”
“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”