Present Quotes - page 4

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. (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
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. View quote
José Rizal
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and evn the past enjoy. View quote
Alexander Pope
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. View quote
Antonin Artaud
At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. (Ragnar Frisch)
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. View quote
John le Carré
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. View quote
John Dryden
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present...yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. View quote
Donald Trump
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. (Katherine Mansfield)
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life. View quote
P. D. James
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. View quote
James Baldwin
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
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