Present Quotes

The future is much like the present, only longer.

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?

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

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.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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.

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.