Present Quotes
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
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
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
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
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
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
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
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
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
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
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
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
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
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.Frank Herbert, Dune
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 honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
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
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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
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
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
