Top 936 Presents Quotes & Sayings

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

Each moment presents what happens.

The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.

Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

My grandparents, one Christmas, they did not have anything. They did not have money to buy presents. So my grandmother went to the orange tree outside her home, and so her boys did not go without for Christmas, she took oranges to her sons as presents.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?

Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.

As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Every movie presents its challenges.

When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

I just love buying myself presents. Is that a crime?

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

I just like to stay ready for whatever presents itself.

The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

I give myself little presents all the time. But I don't do extravagant things.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

I pride myself on buying really good presents.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum had four children plus all of the extended family and she not only had to feed us all but she bought presents for everyone, too.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.