Present Quotes
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.Pam Brown
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Prove
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.Bruce Marton
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.Carol Botwin
God will be present, whether asked or not.Latin Prove
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.Seneca
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.Frank Herbert, Dune
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.Chinese Prove
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.Jawahar Lal Neheru
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.Eugenio Montale
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.Susan Sontag
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.Benjamin Franklin
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed of evil cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.H Hahn Blavatsky
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
The future depends on what we do in the present.Mahatma Gandhi
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Past and to come seem best things present worst.Mary Bertone
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.Saint Francis de Sales
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
