Present Quotes - page 5

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. (Oscar Wilde)
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable. View quote
Martin Amis
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. View quote
Nhat Hanh
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. View quote
Brian Wilson
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
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. View quote
Bill Watterson
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. View quote
Bill Watterson
Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. It is, indeed, a pity, but what can we do, since we are all Bulgarians and all suffer from one common disease. If this disease had not been present in our ancestors, from whom we inherited it, they would have never fallen under the sceptre of the Turkish Sultan... View quote
Gotse Delchev
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. View quote
Charles Lamb
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Francis Bacon)
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. View quote
Will Smith
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. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped. View quote
Rod Serling
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present. View quote
Annie Besant
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign Jackie Collins and they go away quite content. View quote
Robertson Davies
The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities. View quote
Robertson Davies
Time goes from present to past. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (1954), p. 75. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization. (Herbert Marcuse)
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
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 were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. View quote
Dan Brown