Present Quotes
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.Bill Cosby
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.David M. Ogilvy
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
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
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
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.William Shakespeare
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.William James
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.Norman Podhoretz
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.Paul Weyrich
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
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
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
