#resent

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#especially #expectations #far #generation #gentlemen

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#aware #being #changes #exercise #lot

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#anywhere #doing #get #going #happened

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#contrary #domain #economic #element #finally

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#away #earth #explore #further #generation

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#coffee #exploding #human #human nature #job

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#felt #i #represented #worst

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#cannot #deal #father #go #great

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#endures #flesh #future #gluttony #lust

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way. ↗

— John Grisham

#am #american #american way #big #big corporations