#present

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. ↗

— John Bright

#elect #equal #franchise #gives #itself

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#false #got #head #i #love

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#great #i #life #love #love me

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#country #determination #else #idealism #more

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team. ↗

— Vince Carter

#care #going #got #here #how

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. ↗

— Chanakya

#anxious #deal #discernment #fret #future

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#beat #does #door #down #itself

I have often said that there is no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented by the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm. ↗

— John Coolidge

#began #being #cause #detrimental #disturbed

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views. ↗

— John Dingell

#broad #country #democratic #democratic party #different