Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
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.
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
