Present Quotes

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.