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No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. -- Frank Robinson
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. -- Garry Trudeau
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. -- Sidney Poitier
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. -- Frida Kahlo
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader. -- Billy Collins
Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence. -- Dolly Parton
Just like the bright sun, I am a radiant being. Others feel safe and warm in my presence. -- Louise Hay
I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community, -- Johnny Weir
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I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace) -- Cassandra Clare
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If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. -- Sidney Poitier
My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad. -- Shah Rukh Khan
And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab. -- Khaled Hosseini
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. -- Elliott Erwitt
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded. -- William Shakespeare
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence. -- Philippa Gregory
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.... -- Edgar Allan Poe
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university. -- Robert E. Lee
To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't. -- Evangeline Lilly
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out. -- Joan Didion
I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual. -- Raquel Welch
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others." -- Samuel Johnson
The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. -- Nhat Hanh
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. -- Joan Didion
Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence. -- Khem Veasna
Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings. -- Lee Friedlander
...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I heard when I talk, they all listen, They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians. I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin' Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas. -- Torae
Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own. -- William Cowper Prime
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered. -- Brian Lindstrom
the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence. -- Ellen Wittlinger
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people. -- Garry Kasparov
It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death. -- Raymond Leo Burke
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. -- Pat Conroy
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you. -- Leo Tolstoy
Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday. -- Nadine Velazquez
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both. -- Tracey Emin
people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume. -- Nancy Mairs
I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency. -- Patty Griffin
You again," she said, and she did not sound happy."I know," the warrior replied with a heartfelt sighYou're so lucky to see me twice in one day. You're honored by my presence, yada, yada, heard it all before. Let's just move on, shall we. I don't handle fawning very well." -- Gena Showalter
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. -- Mos Def
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels. -- Fran Drescher
In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. -- Giorgio Armani
I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life. -- Roma Downey
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. -- Ralph Allen
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. -- Esther Williams
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence. -- Ben Okri
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. -- George McGovern
Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. -- Spike Jonze
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck. -- Mary Karr
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Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film. -- George Hickenlooper
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. -- Mark Gatiss
O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you. -- George Whitefield
You're intoxicated by my very presence. -- Stephenie Meyer
My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone. -- Fernando Pessoa
It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli -- Janet Evanovich
I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music. -- Tori Amos
Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence. -- Karen Marie Moning
I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world. -- Rumi
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, -- Christopher Hitchens
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers -- Esther Williams
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. -- Henry Constable
I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence. -- Jerry Spinelli
My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different. -- Karen Wheaton
Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. -- Patti Smith
When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence -- Hillsong
I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity. -- R. C. Sproul
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence. -- Richard Matheson
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence. -- George Michael
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! -- John Brown
I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life. -- Bill Johnson
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. -- Isabel Allende
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses. -- Isaac Asimov
Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film. -- George Hickenlooper
Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again. -- Robert Hayden
I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength -- Michael Jackson
My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence. -- Chuck Norris
Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day? -- Pope Francis
To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks. -- Ruskin Bond
I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. -- Marilyn Sewell
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. -- Rajneesh
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy -- Matthew Healy
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. -- Albert Einstein
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own. -- Anna Katharine Green
The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers. -- George Sarton
Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.... -- Jan Karon
I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence. -- Charlotte Eriksson
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? -- Max Lucado
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283 -- Sonia Sotomayor
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283 -- Sonia Sotomayor
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye. -- Joseph Addison
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence. -- Kehinde Wiley
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. -- Jack Vance
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. -- Gus Van Sant
With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence. -- Gia Coppola
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours. -- Bill Johnson
The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. -- Fernando Pessoa
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away. -- Patti Smith
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? -- Marquis de Sade
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth. -- Luke Davies
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. -- Khalil Gibran
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference -- Rumi
When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence. -- Philip Yancey
As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality. -- Yesung
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. -- Dave Pelzer
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. -- Charlotte Bronte
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. -- Malak El Halabi
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time -- Andre Breton
The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place. -- Anne Sexton
I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano... -- Tori Amos

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