Present Quotes
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.William Wordsworth
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Prove
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
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
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
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.William Bolitho
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.Alfonso the Wise
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.S. I. Hayakawa
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.Jerome K. Jerome
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.Ludwig Wittgenstein
