Present Quotes - page 3

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. (Victor Hugo)
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. View quote
Charles Dickens
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The future is no more uncertain than the present. View quote
Walt Whitman
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 really worked, is mine. View quote
Nikola Tesla
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. View quote
Albert Einstein
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. View quote
Penelope Lively
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. (Penelope Lively)
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. View quote
John Mott
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. View quote
Emmet Fox
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. View quote
William James
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. View quote
William James
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. (John Dewey)
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli