Present Quotes
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Ernest Hemingway
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Thomas Fulle
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.H Hahn Blavatsky
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.Anon.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
