We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
Val McDermid
Related If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists BENJAMIN DISRAELI We are in very good relationships with the present pope, Benedict XVI, and I'm in the very happy pos... ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ... PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee... AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m... TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne... BOB HAMMOND Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technolog... EDWARD O. WILSON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut... TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. JOAN RIVERS The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu... BLAISE PASCAL You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. OSCAR WILDE The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th... EMMET FOX The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be JAY FRANKLIN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo. LOUISE ARBOUR there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation. NORMAN WILLIAMS The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be... HELEN ZILLE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present. GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t... ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time.... WILLIAM JAMES We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now. GERHARD SCHROEDER I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o... DESMOND LACHMAN The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ... VYACHESLAV NIKONOV This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S... GEORGE WHITEFIELD The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures... GEORGE SANTAYANA That's certainly under review at the present time. BILL MISKELL The future is made of the same stuff as the present SIMONE WEIL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t... JACK LONDON The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ... AGNES REPPLIER The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in the present, ... But as always, y... BOB HAMMOND Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you PHAEDRUS Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T... STEVEN WOOD We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present. PJ CROWLEY The present will not long endure PINDAR The events show how desperate the present royal regime is. It is becoming paranoid. The movement is ... DHRUBA ADHIKARY Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch... ABDUL SATTAR God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra... WILLIAM CONGREVE If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr... SONIA GANDHI endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better. JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ... MARK KNOPFLER At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am... PETER MANDELSON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti... DAVID THOMAS You'll see from the 1800s to the present day what sea level has done. And you'll see the rise. There... JIM DIXON Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present ROGER ROSENBLATT The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. FRANK DOBSON After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident... HELMUT SCHMIDT They have offered a price even less than the present domestic price, how can we agree to that? MAHMUDUR RAHMAN In the present, we still have an image of a girl as sweet and innocent. She's not always that, but s... LOREN LERNER Our message is simply: that we should try and get out of the present downward spiral. KARAN SINGH I think the average person, unfortunately, sees the result and they attribute that to the present ad... JEFF KANE Based on the present trends, the natural gas prices this winter is expected to be significantly high... NICK STAVROPOULOS A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN It is becoming apparent that authentic journeys are not measured by time. The only time is the prese... R.J. BLIZZARD Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you; not the person you present to the worl... ETC WANYANWU If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... A person has all sorts of lags built into him Kesey is saying. Once the most basic is the sensory la... TOM WOLFE Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have no... BRAD MELTZER We've talked to a lot of people in the medical field about this. There is no way steroids would be d... JAY FRANKLIN When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter what... JACK KORNFIELD When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas w... OLYMPIA BROWN Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It is important for the international community to make balanced moves in the present situation. ALEXANDER KALUGIN We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ... KOFI ANNAN I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but th... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc... DALAI LAMA I do see signs of improvement by the present Zimbabwe. They just need consistency. SOURAV GANGULY Iran believes negotiation based on international agreements is the solution to get out of the presen... HOSSEIN ENTEZAMI The most glaringly obvious fact about the present case is the significant media and public interest ... RODNEY MELVILLE Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To Geo... RICHARD DREYFUSS Invent a past for the present. DANIEL STERN People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective. DIANE SAWYER Both presidents agreed that, in the present circumstances, it was best not to have a meeting in Wash... SCOTT MCCLELLAN At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca... MIKHAIL KAMYNIN History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as... E. L. DOCTOROW
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