The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire
I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. – Ajay Naidu
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. – John Podhoretz
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it’s at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. – Adolf Loos
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. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. – Johann Most
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. – Andrzej Wajda
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. – Barney Oliver
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country. – Bhumibol Adulyadej
It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, ‘You’re not famous enough for the lead roles, and you’re too present for the supporting roles – you’d overpower the lead.’ – Antje Traue
I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we’re done, then the rest of the time is mine. – Alec Baldwin
Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character. – Cate Blanchett
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it – whole-heartedly – and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.’ – Arthur Quiller-Couch
Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe. – Brian Sutton-Smith
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. – Benoit Mandelbrot
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. – Bobby Scott
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense. – Al Sharpton