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Quotes About Presence

Leia follows me like a vague smell.
~ Carrie Fisher
For me, I've such a steady presence throughout the community that I think if anyone can raise up to the challenge of presenting the face of cosplay, it could be me. Not to be vain, but I've had the training to be in this position.
~ Yaya Han
My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.
~ Picabo Street
Sometimes good work is done with passion, enthusiasm - presence can be as valuable as many millions of pounds.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.
~ Andie MacDowell
I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments.
~ Ravichandran Ashwin
It is true we all have fears attack us," he was saying. "We do not speak of it—but it is there. In those times we realize more than ever that we need God. That is when we pray with the most sincerity. That is when he answers with the most fatherly compassion. His presence is most intimate, most precious, and most reassuring, in those times of fear.
~ Janette Oke
God had promised He would never leave me nor forsake me. That held true on a city street, in a rural teacherage, or in a remote part of the North.
~ Janette Oke
When they were done, the stones lay heaped upon the still form. The crowd dispersed like crows flying from empty bones. The elders picked up their robes and walked away. The mob was now silent. No one met the gaze of his neighbor. They drifted away, until only Ezra stood at one side, Saul on the other.
~ Janette Oke
JOHN BELUSHI ENTERED my life with the crash of a door, a broken chair, and maybe pots flying out of the kitchen cabinets.
~ Jann S. Wenner
And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
~ Jarvis Cocker
I'd stand near the fires, looking at people's faces, just soaking up the presence of other human beings. It was never enough, but it was better than nothing.
~ Unknown
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
~ Jasper Fforde
Aber als ich mich beruhigt hatte, ist mir klar geworden, dass diese Welt, so verdorben und unvollkommen sie ist, schöner wäre, wenn du in ihr bliebest.<
~ Jasper Fforde
Billboards can do more than attract direct sales on occasion. Billboards also help when you are new to an area and want to make your presence known and when you want to tie in with a unique advertising campaign or promotion.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
People never expected to find you at the corner of State and Main, on Fifth Avenue, or in the Mall of America. But they do expect to find you on the Internet.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
Most job seekers don't understand this. If you are not in the recruiter's database and you are not present on the Internet, to the recruiter, you don't exist.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
What on my to do list is possibly more important than taking the time to anchor myself in my own presence?
~ Unknown
This cousin had a girlfriend with cheekbones to break your heart, and you knew she was the real thing when she steadfastly refused to acknowledge your presence. She possessed secrets—about islands, about horses, about French pronunciation—that you would never know.
~ Jay McInerney
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending
~ Jean Baudrillard
I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification.
~ Jean Baudrillard
la presencia no se borra ante el vacío, se borra ante un redoblamiento de presencia que borra la oposición de la presencia y de la ausencia
~ Jean Baudrillard
The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence
~ Jean Baudrillard
One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms (Littré).
~ Jean Baudrillard