300 Quotes on Present

• Awareness acts as the whisper within fleeting moments of tranquility, inviting us to perceive how absence thrives in a loud world.

  Author: Leonora Silvestri

• History is not about the past; it is about understanding the present and shaping the future.

  Author: Wendell Berry

• The beauty of the present moment lies in its imperfections, for it is through our flaws that we reveal our true resilience.

  Author: Amara Johnson

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

  Author: Bil Keane

• Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

  Author: Gao Xingjian

• Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

  Author: Frank Wright

• We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

  Author: Francis Wright

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

  Author: William Wills

• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  Author: Nathaniel Willis

• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

  Author: Roger Williams

• It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

  Author: George Whitefield

• In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

  Author: William Whipple

• In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  Author: Mary Webb

• 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.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  Author: William Ward

• Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

  Author: Julie Walters

• And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

  Author: Edward Wadsworth

• It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

  Author: Voltaire

• Endure the present, and watch for better things.

  Author: Virgil

• The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

  Author: John Vinocur

• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Author: Joan Vinge

• In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

  Author: Bob Verdi

• The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

  Author: Paul Valery

• God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

  Author: Evelyn Underhill

• Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

  Author: William Tyndale

• The past has to inform the present.

  Author: John Turturro

• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  Author: Scott Turow

• My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

  Author: Abraham Tucker

• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

  Author: Robin Trower

• I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

  Author: Herbert Tree

• Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

  Author: James Thurber

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Author: Phyllis Theroux

• Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

  Author: Nikola Tesla

• The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

  Author: Tertullian

• Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

  Author: William Temple

• The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

  Author: Lili Taylor

• I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

  Author: James Taylor

• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  Author: Tacitus

• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

  Author: John Sununu

• When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.

  Author: Avrum Stroll

• Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

  Author: Gregor Strasser

• If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

  Author: Gregor Strasser

• The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

  Author: John Strachan

• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

  Author: Stendhal

• If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

  Author: Claus Stauffenberg

• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

  Author: Anne Stael

• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

  Author: Sophocles

• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

  Author: William Smith

• In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

  Author: Charlotte Smith

• To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

  Author: Peter Singer

• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  Author: Clifford Simak

• Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

  Author: Clifford Simak

• I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

  Author: William Shirley

• And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

  Author: Hu Shih

• I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

  Author: William Sherman

• I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

  Author: Seneca

• I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

  Author: Adam Sedgwick

• If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  Author: Paul Scott

• God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

  Author: Jill Scott

• I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.

  Author: Frank Scott

• Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

  Author: Charles Schulz

• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

  Author: Alfred Schnittke

• 'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

  Author: Rick Santorum

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  Author: Carlos Santana

• We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

  Author: Bobby Sands

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  Author: Walter Salles

• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  Author: Saint Sales

• My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

  Author: George Saintsbury

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

  Author: Muqtada Sadr

• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  Author: Gabriela Sabatini

• The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

  Author: Joseph Rutherford

• Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

  Author: Richard Russo

• Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

  Author: Lillian Russell

• The present is a point just passed.

  Author: David Russell

• I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

  Author: Ethel Rosenberg

• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

  Author: Dave Ronk

• Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

  Author: Chi Rodriguez

• Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

  Author: Alex Rodriguez

• Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

  Author: John Robinson

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

  Author: Christopher Ricks

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

  Author: Little Richard

• God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

  Author: Little Richard

• If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

  Author: David Ricardo

• The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

  Author: Alain Resnais

• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

  Author: Agnes Repplier

• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

  Author: Eric Raymond

• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

  Author: Leopold Ranke

• Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  Author: Dan Quisenberry

• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  Author: Dan Quisenberry

• Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

  Author: Marcus Quintilian

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Author: Edgar Quinet

• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  Author: Ludwig Quidde

• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Author: Nido Qubein

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

  Author: Chaim Potok

• At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

  Author: John Poindexter

• 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.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

  Author: Plotinus

• I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• The present will not long endure.

  Author: Pindar

• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

  Author: Phaedrus

• The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

  Author: Mike Pence

• Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

  Author: George Peabody

• It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

  Author: James Payn

• There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

  Author: James Payn

• Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

  Author: Ivan Pavlov

• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

  Author: Chuck Palahniuk

• The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

  Author: Marcel Pagnol

• Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

  Author: Jack Osbourne

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  Author: Adam Osborne

• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  Author: George Orwell

• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  Author: Origen

• You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

  Author: Charles Olson

• The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

  Author: Charles Olson

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  Author: Barney Oliver

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

  Author: Babatunde Olatunji

• My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  Author: William O'Connell

• To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

  Author: George Norris

• Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

  Author: Bob Ney

• You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

  Author: James Newman

• Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

  Author: Petra Nemcova

• When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

  Author: Craig Nelson

• 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.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

  Author: Graham Nash

• The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

  Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

  Author: Margaret Murray

• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Author: Iris Murdoch

• Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

  Author: Johannes Muller

• There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

  Author: John Mott

• Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

  Author: Johann Most

• He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

  Author: Johann Most

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  Author: Samuel Morton

• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  Author: Van Morrison

• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  Author: Simon Morris

• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

  Author: Nils-Axel Morner

• My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

  Author: Sun Moon

• The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

  Author: Sun Moon

• Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

  Author: Vincente Minnelli

• We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

  Author: David Milne

• All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.

  Author: David Milne

• However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

  Author: Kate Millett

• I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

  Author: Jonathan Miller

• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

  Author: Bette Midler

• As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Author: Lennart Meri

• We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

  Author: Melina Mercouri

• A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

  Author: Moses Mendelssohn

• I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

  Author: Golda Meir

• Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

  Author: George Mead

• Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

  Author: George Mead

• Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.

  Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

  Author: Aslan Maskhadov

• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  Author: Karl Marx

• What I am interested in is the present time.

  Author: Sophie Marceau

• An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

  Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

• The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

  Author: Thomas Malthus

• In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

  Author: Stephane Mallarme

• I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

  Author: Norman Mailer

• You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

  Author: Ramana Maharshi

• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

  Author: Rene Magritte

• Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

  Author: Anne Macy

• The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

  Author: George MacDonald

• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

  Author: Trofim Lysenko

• My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

  Author: George Lucas

• I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis.

  Author: Isaac Low

• Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

  Author: James Lovelock

• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

• I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

  Author: Konrad Lorenz

• When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

  Author: Adolf Loos

• The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

  Author: Adolf Loos

• I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

  Author: James Longstreet

• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

  Author: Kristanna Loken

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