Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. Stockwell Day
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
Fredrik Bajer
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. Robert Grosseteste
I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state of things it would be madness to quarrel openly with the Count whilst I am so absolutely in his power.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. William Godwin
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving Babbitt
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. Joan Blades
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Robert Delaunay
In his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space to get through.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. Thomas Traherne
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus
I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation. Jim Evans
