#resent

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#around #attention #disconnect #focus #immediate

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. ↗

— Sam Houston

#alone #am #aware #i #i am

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#around #bike #blades #canada #experiences

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#anything #dream #medal #olympic #olympic medal

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#country #family #felt #helped #i

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #derived #divine #grace #human

Conscience is God present in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #man #present

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#hence #microscope #past #past time #present

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#her #imitate #mission #nature #represent

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #fact #features #his #history