Present Quotes
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
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
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
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
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
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.Margaret Fulle
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
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
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
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
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty.Theodore Roosevelt
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
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.S. I. Hayakawa
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Thomas Fulle
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
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
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
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
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
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
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
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
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
