The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
I'm excited about Augmented Reality because unlike Virtual Reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what's happening presently.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.
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.
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.
International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
