Present Quotes

S. i. hayakawa - if you see in any given situation only what...
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - If it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
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
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.
Bill Cosby
Plato, dialogues, theatetus - you are young, my son, and, as the years go by,...
Senator william grayson - last monday a string of amendments were presented...
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
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 religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
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
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
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Seneca
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Alfonso the Wise
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandle
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
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
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
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
Harold J. Seymore
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
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
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy
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
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
Chinese Prove
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
Carol Botwin
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
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
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
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell