Present Quotes - page 2

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. (Hippocrates)
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. View quote
Ulrich Beck
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going. View quote
Tennessee Williams
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. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
An orange on the table Your robe on the carpet And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Coolness of the night Warmth of my life. View quote
Jacques Prévert
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. View quote
E. M. Forster
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. (Maya Angelou)
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. View quote
Nhat Hanh
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Marianne Williamson
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. (Golda Meir)
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. View quote
Marina Abramovic
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. View quote
William Arthur Ward