The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a...

The state is going to be present where it has to be for every Argentine, especially for the neediest of us.

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Singers put emotions into songs which the actors later replicate on screen. When I know that I can also present myself well on-screen, why not do that?

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not...

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli's legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional, incredible, and intelligent approach; she was ahead of her...

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the...

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I feel like the times always present themselves. You don't consciously choose when a thing comes out. It's just like records for sampling. You know what I mean? It's like when you're going to do it,...

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated...

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.