#present

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #future #hope #look #must

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#because #changes #constructive #continent #demand

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#difficult #face #front #life #lot

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#actor #animosity #dead #every #living

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#because #i #i think #icon #mum

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#absolution #administer #any #baptism #case

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#being #care #i #less #oscars

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#itself #lawrence #occasion #population #presents