Present Quotes
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
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
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
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
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
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
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
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
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.Jerome K. Jerome
If I had the time to sit down and write a thank - You note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.Saint Francis de Sales
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
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
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
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
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
God will be present, whether asked or not.Latin Prove
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.Pam Brown
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.William A. Foste
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
