Present Quotes
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.Seneca
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.Thomas Fulle
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.Jim Bishop
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
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
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.George Washington
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.William Law
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.William A. Foste
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.Benjamin Franklin
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
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
