Present Quotes

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.