Present Quotes
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
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.George Washington
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
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
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
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
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.Kyle Chandle
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Prove
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
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
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
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
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
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
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.Bill Cosby
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
