#present

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. ↗

— John Sununu

#danger #direct #long #pose #present

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#become #come #dark #door #go

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#individuals #know #others #representatives #see

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#capabilities #our #presentation #work

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#form #i #impressive #me #most

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beautiful #because #complete #emotion #emotions

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. ↗

— Lactantius

#fear #present #where #wisdom