Present Quotes
The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.Eugenio Montale
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.Albert Einstein
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.Roger Babson
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.Eckhart Tolle
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
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
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
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
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.Kyle Chandle
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Prove
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Taxation without representation is tyranny.James Otis
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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
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
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.Unknown
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
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.Benjamin Franklin
