Present Quotes - page 22

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. (Franklin D. 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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I scarcely remember counting upon happiness-I look not for it if it be not in the present hour-nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel. View quote
John Keats
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him. View quote
Peter Drucker
Decisions exist only in the present. View quote
Peter Drucker
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more. View quote
Michael Faraday
For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise. (Viktor Schauberger)
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence. View quote
Nikola Tesla
And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future. View quote
Gottfried Leibniz
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. View quote
Karl Marx
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced' upon the Government. The Government will not use force unless force is used against it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything. View quote
Socrates
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go! View quote
Brion Gysin
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... View quote
Larry Wall
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. (Laozi)
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now. View quote
Christopher Paolini
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre